Ah, we could probably have a better way of sharing data. Maybe something like a sub surface would be best.
But for now, you can copy the sound data and chop it up yourself. cheers, On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Brian Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > although it's probably not a huge thing, the sound constructor doc claims it > won't share the buffer: > "Note: The buffer will be copied internally, no data will be shared between > it and the Sound object." > if that's correct it means that approach would make copies of the music > > But more importantly, how would you get a buffer that points to an offset > within another buffer? > > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:24 AM, René Dudfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You can get a buffer from Sound objects now. >> http://pygame.org/docs/ref/mixer.html#Sound.get_buffer >> >> Then combined with the constructor... pygame.mixer.Sound(buffer) >> should do the trick. >> http://pygame.org/docs/ref/mixer.html#pygame.mixer.Sound >> >> cheers, >> >> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Brian Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > I didn't mean copying the sound - I meant with SDL could you make a >> > mixer >> > chunk that pointed to a portion of some other chunk. >> > >> > or are you saying it's easy in pygame to make a sound that points to a >> > subset of the content of another sound? (like a subsurface...) If so, >> > how >> > would you do that? >> > >> > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:17 AM, René Dudfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> yeah, pretty much. >> >> >> >> Doing that from python is just as easy though. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Brian Fisher >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> wrote: >> >> > From looking at SDL_mixer it's hard to tell if it would even support >> >> > playing >> >> > from an offset... Would adding support for playing from an offset in >> >> > pygame >> >> > just be a matter of manually making a new chunk object that would >> >> > point >> >> > to a >> >> > place within the original chunk for the sample? >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:09 AM, René Dudfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> yeah, you'll have to chop up the Sound samples yourself for that... >> >> >> which shouldn't be too hard. >> >> >> >> >> >> cheers, >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> > > >
