RE: [GD-Windows] MP3 Playback under Windows

[Daniel V. <vo...@ep...>]

> I've just started looking into this today, oddly enough.  What are your
> experiences with it (good, bad, in-between)?  So far I'm finding the
> documentation lacking, so I'm just going off of the encoder sample file
> (*shudder*).

The examples and documentations aren't the best but it didn't take much code
to get it up and running smoothly. It basically boils down to calling
ov_open and ov_read. You should contact Jack Moffit [ja...@xi...] or Monty
[xip...@xi...] when you need help. Jack helped me fix some (very)
stupid bugs in my code when I integrated it into our engine :)

http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/vorbisfile/example.html is very close to
what my implementation looks like.


> Are any of your shipping products using it?

We haven't shipped a title using it and neither have any of our licensees
AFAIK. Support for it is currently in the engine and at the moment we are
happy with it. Not saying that this might not change in the future but so
far we haven't run into any problems using it for streaming background
music.

Operation Flashpoint is a shipping title that uses Ogg Vorbis more
extensively IIRC.


- Daniel Vogel, Programmer, Epic Games Inc.