Re: [DirectPython] DirectSound

[Heikki S. <ho...@gm...>]

 

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From: dir...@li...
[mailto:dir...@li...] On Behalf Of
Paul Holmberg
Sent: 21. helmikuuta 2007 2:27
To: dir...@li...
Subject: [DirectPython] DirectSound


Hi all,

I am interesting in using DirectPython as an interface to DirectSound, the
end goal being to be able to stream and capture audio in real time using
DirectSound as the sound card interface from python.  While DirectPython
looks promising it appears that the DirectSound interface actually has very
little support.  Is there something I have missed?  And if not then is
support for this planned for the near future? 

Thanks,
Paul Holmberg
 

DirectPython's support for DirectSound is pretty basic and there are no
major plans to extend it. The primary purpose of DirectSound is to play
sounds efficiently, altough it can be used to capture sounds. The biggest
problem is that the DirectSound API itself has not been updated in a long
time and it can be deprecated somewhere in the future. DirectMusic (a
DirectSound "wrapper") has been alredy removed from the DirectX SDK and
altough DirectSound is a pretty good library, it's future is questionable.
Windows Vista already dropped some support and Microsoft has provided some
alternatives like XACT. In short, there are other libraries which are better
suited for sound processing. As a last resort it is possible to use ctypes
or comtypes to directly call the API altough this can be difficult if you
don't have any previous experience with them.
 
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Heikki Salo