Re: [cadcdev-tiki] OpenAL Streams

[Sam S. <sam...@gm...>]

On May 14, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Dan Potter wrote:

> Not real sure... I will say that I haven't used it that way myself.  
> What I usually do is use the stream objects as a one-shot and get a  
> new one when I want to start a new song. So there might be bugs in  
> it for the other usage. You might want to just step through it with  
> Xcode and see what is going on.

Not sure if sourceforge or gmail ate my messages for so long, but I  
finally got your reply this morning.  I managed to get it working, by  
returning GDSuccess with silence when the stream first runs out of  
data, then on the next request for data I return GDEOS.  That seems  
to let OpenAL empty its buffer out before it deletes the source  
(though occasionally it'll assert() and bring the app down, but most  
of the time it works).

I also made an effort to port KOS's stream.c into the new streaming  
class (Atani's code is just a stub).  It kinda works, I can get sound  
out of my tone generator, though it's a little choppy, and eventually  
the DC hangs up.  It also crashes when trying to use the oggvorbis  
player (it wont even pre-fill the buffer...).  I'm not very familiar  
with the streaming API, so I'm kind of shooting in the dark with  
this.  If I check in what I have so far, is anyone else interested in  
troubleshooting it / finishing it?  It'd be nice to have sound on the  
DC :)

-Sam