[Sc2-devel] OpenAL sound code at CVS

[Mika K. <mim...@cc...>]

Hi,

Current CVS now uses OpenAL for audio playing, instead of SDL_mixer, for 
various reasons (SDL_mixer isn't good enough for this project). The code 
is somewhat experimental still, and has some known problems (see TODO for 
more), like music volume control doesn't work under Linux because of 
prolly OpenAL implementation bug (I've mailed to openal list about that). 

If it turns out that there's too many problems, or something, this 
change can be reverted easily back to SDL_mixer as all required code is 
still there etc.

Linux users can get OpenAL via CVS, instructions at 
http://opensource.creative.com

Win32 users should install OpenAL SDK which includes all needed stuff, 
from ftp://opensource.creative.com/pub/sdk/OpenALSDK.exe
Also, you'll prolly need few updated dll's because SDL_sound VC package 
hasn't been updated yet, and I had to compile SDL_sound myself to get 
everything work with newer vorbis stuff (compiled with VC7, if it causes 
problems, I'll try to get someone with VC6 to do that).
Get them at http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~mimakole/sc2/sdl_sound_dlls.zip

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Mika Kolehmainen <mim...@cc...>