Re: [openvrml-develop] OpenAL sound support in OpenVRML

[-oli- <ol...@fr...>]

Hi!

I will give some comments to my planned work on OpenVRML in this message:
- I need the OpenAL support in OpenVRML for my own puroposes, as I'm 
writing a diploma thesis about virtual acoustics.
- I will use, develop and compile it under Windows (98 and 2k) with M$ 
VisualC++ 6.0, and as I don't know much about makefiles, I will _not_ be 
able to produce a patch which enables compiling with "--with-openal". I'm 
inserting my own source with "#if use_openal" at the moment, so someone 
else can adapt the makefiles.
- I am using the OpenAL distribution from the Creative website (see Tom's 
mail).

At 20:43 08.04.2002 -0400, you wrote:
>        * *Yes*, I would accept a patch for OpenAL-based audio support.
>         * This support would be disabled by default. If someone wanted
>           to build with it, they'd need to configure with
>           "--with-openal" or somesuch.
>         * If OpenVRML also had support for some other audio solution (I
>           mentioned GStreamer before, and I still think it's our best
>           bet under Linux), I would not be inclined to spend too much of
>           *my own* energy maintaining multiple audio solutions in
>           parallel.

That's okay.

>If you think I'm trying to steer you toward GStreamer instead of OpenAL,
>you'd be right. However, I appreciate that you may have your own
>motivation for wanting to use OpenAL, and I have no intention of
>belaboring the issue beyond this posting. I appreciate that your work
>*will* improve OpenVRML, even if it's not exactly what I'd do. :-)

I looked on the GStreamer website. It seems to be a powerful solution for 
media processing, but there is no windows support (yet), so I cannot use it 
at this time.


Thanx for answering my questions!

Regards

         -oli-
         (Oliver Baum)