seems like I was wrong. Profiling shows 60% is spent on getting the audio service and setting up the volume. Only 40% is spent on the actual play function. So would seem like I setting up the volume before hand is the way to go. I'll try that out and see how things go.
On Dec 19, 7:46 pm, rukiman <[email protected]> wrote: > I cannot quatify it but it is very noticeable and feels "wrong" when > playing my game. for example I play a sound when a piece is selected > however due to the lag the sound feel a bit out of place. > I will try to profile whats going on here. But I thought perhaps > someone may have had experienced this issue and come up with a > solution or workaround. I will try Matts idea of calculating the > volume before hand etc so I have to simply call soundPool.play(). Only > issue is that creates extra work i.e the sound volume might have > changed by the user meanwhile and also I'm very doubtful if it will > improve the lag. > > On Dec 19, 6:37 am, Robert Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Can you quantify the lag? How much is it lagging? Lately I've been > > seeing my footstep sounds, which are individually triggered right and > > left steps, take 2-50ms to trigger for some reason. I'm not sure if > > it has something to do with the way the OGG is encoded, but I feel > > like it could. Perhaps the SoundPool author would like to chime in > > and give us some hints? > > > On Dec 18, 3:45 am, rukiman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am using the SoundPool as follows: > > > > Caching my sounds: > > > // loadsoundeffects > > > soundPool = new SoundPool(2, > > > AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC, 0); > > > soundPoolMap = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>(); > > > AssetFileDescriptor afd; > > > try { > > > afd = > > > context.getAssets().openFd("sounds/piecemove.ogg"); > > > soundPoolMap.put(SOUND_PIECEMOVE, > > > soundPool.load(afd, 1)); > > > > afd = > > > context.getAssets().openFd("sounds/piecestop.ogg"); > > > soundPoolMap.put(SOUND_PIECESTOP, > > > soundPool.load(afd, 1)); > > > > afd = > > > context.getAssets().openFd("sounds/pieceattack.ogg"); > > > soundPoolMap.put(SOUND_PIECEATTACK, > > > soundPool.load(afd, 1)); > > > > afd = > > > context.getAssets().openFd("sounds/pieceselect.ogg"); > > > soundPoolMap.put(SOUND_PIECESELECT, > > > soundPool.load(afd, 1)); > > > > afd = > > > context.getAssets().openFd("sounds/selection.ogg"); > > > soundPoolMap.put(SOUND_MENUSELECTION, > > > soundPool.load(afd, 1)); > > > > afd = > > > context.getAssets().openFd("sounds/pageturn.ogg"); > > > soundPoolMap.put(SOUND_PAGETURN, > > > soundPool.load(afd, 1)); > > > } catch (IOException e) { > > > e.printStackTrace(); > > > } > > > > Function to play sounds: > > > > public static int playSound(Context context, intsound) { > > > > AudioManager mgr = (AudioManager) context > > > .getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE); > > > float streamVolumeCurrent = mgr > > > > > > .getStreamVolume(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC); > > > float streamVolumeMax = mgr > > > > > > .getStreamMaxVolume(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC); > > > float volume = streamVolumeCurrent / streamVolumeMax; > > > /* Play thesoundwith the correct volume */ > > > return soundPool > > > .play(soundPoolMap.get(sound), volume, > > > volume, 1, 0, 1f); > > > } > > > > Playing asoundeffect i.e when button is clicked: > > > > Resources.playSound(context, Resources.SOUND_PIECESELECT); > > > > However as I said thesoundis lagging. What can I do to improve this? > > > All my sounds are OGG file format. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
