On Saturday 05 June 2004 00:20, Chris Metzler wrote: > OK, I finally got a big block of time to commit to building plib, > SimGear, and FlightGear from CVS, only to find that I didn't need > it. I was expecting to have to solve lots of problems; instead, > the builds went like a breeze. No problems at all. > > Unfortunately, running it was problematic. I guess between > version 0.9.4 in Debian testing/unstable and the current CVS, > sound was switched to OpenAL. I ran into one problem and one > oddity: > > 1. constant pops, crackles, etc., while error messages of the > form > > } Oops AL error in sample set_volume()! 1.3 for > /home/cmetzler/Projects/FlightGear-0.9//data/Sounds/coughing.wav > > scroll up the screen by the score. I don't know anything about > OpenAL; but I'm surprised to have sound problems, since this > is a system that's been built/tuned for doing audio work, with > Robert Love/Andrew Morton's patches in place and a lot of > latency testing done. > > 2. the c172 sound in the cockpit is very different from outside > it. From a view outside the cockpit, it sounds like it did in > version 0.9.4. But from the cockpit view, it has a high pitch > and more distorted-sounding noise. This may be intentional; maybe > cockpit noise really does differ in such a way (I only wish I was > a pilot). But I figured I'd check anyway. > > Any advice, especially on #1, would really be appreciated. > Thanks. > > -c
I think #1 is due to the volume scaling set up in the corresponding sound.xml config - it looks like the volume level that's generated is > 1. I had this with all the a/c I've done when the OpenAL switch occurred and had to adjust the sound configs to ensure that the max volume wouldn't exceed 1. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
