Re: [openvrml-develop] Sound in OpenVRML

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 06:09, -oli- wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've got some questions concerning sound in OpenVRML:
> 
> a) Why was sound support taken out of the current release?

It was disabled a few releases ago. It was a matter of convenience then.
And I intended for it to be replaced with something better. I still do;
but I didn't anticipate having to wait this long. In retrospect, I wish
I hadn't disabled it. However, I now have higher priorities than turning
it back on.

> b) Under which OS'es did the old sound support (sound.cpp in CVS) work?

Just Linux, I think.

If you want to submit a patch to enable the sound support, it would be
welcome.

In terms of something better, I want to do streaming. Since streaming
media APIs differ across platforms, we need to have an abstraction layer
analogous to what we have for the 3D renderer. Prerequisite for
streaming is asynchronous IO, which is something I'll be working on for
0.13.

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