try pyglet.
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:32 PM, B W <stabbingfin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy, folks. > > I have a problem I've been studying a while and I can't figure out a > solution. Pygame or SDL--not sure which--is pretty slow at loading sounds. > For large sounds, like songs, this means significant pauses in your game; or > very long loading times at startup if you have a few of them to load. > > I tried using a thread to load a song, but as expected that only resulted in > a very laggy game for the duration. > > So I was thinking it might be faster to pre-process a song: load it via the > mixer, write the buffer to a data file, then later load it into an array and > feed the array to the mixer. I can see that part of that idea is implemented > in _sndarray.py, but I didn't really want to require numpy and I couldn't > see how to convert that module's code to my purpose anyhow. > > I'm strikin' out. Is this even feasible, or is it a hair-brained scheme > doomed to failure? Has anyone solved this problem, and would s/he be willing > to share? :) > > Gumm >
