[Gooseegg-development] Re: openraider status?

[Terry 'M. H. II <st...@we...>]

On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 03:36, Erik Steffl wrote:
> 
>   the longer wav files are not played, as Music or as data/sample.wav
> (there are no errors during loading or playing of the longer wav files,
> I just don't hear them).
> 
>   I used the data/sample.wav in Music[0] - it does not work.

It's so short looping it wouldn't be a good idea.  There was an old
OpenAL bug that showed that. It might have a guard for it. =)

I've talked to an author of OpenAL and I will be making some changes
soon.  I now know a little more about how and why it acts based on
sample rate, which causes memory issues on low end machines.

>   other files smaller than 20kB work, files bigger than that do not work
> (not sure what's the exact limit)

-r-xr-xr-x    1 mongoose mongoose     5.8M Jun  4  2001
/home/mongoose/projects/Data/models/tombraider/tr4/039_TR4_Title_Q10.wav

I play music files up to 10MB, but I have to close some apps, since I
run on a 128MB box. You see the sample rate can cause them to ballon to
2x or 4x diskfile size in memory. See TODO about my plans.  =)


>   yes, and the first one works (_sound.Play(id)), the second one does
> not (_sound.Play(_test_snd)) even though their respective _sound.Add do
> not signal any errors (in the meantime I even added some more of the
> alGetError calls)

Send a patch for that and I'll add them, and if you wish to work on the
project you might need CVS access to commit directly later.
 
cheers,
Terry

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