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From: "Cara Quinn" <caraqu...@caraquinn.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] To Developers: Switching from DirectSound to
OpenALSoft
Hi Ian,
I use OpenAL rather than OpenAL Soft so hopefully this will help.
Yes, you can play music in the same context as positional audio simply by
defining the source as stereo rather than mono. When you do this, the
source automatically becomes non-positional so you can use it to play
music etc, along with your positioned mono sources.
To your second point about positioning stereo sounds, I'm not sure about
OpenAL Soft but in OpenAL you would need to play the left and right
channels of your sound independently using two sources. This way you can
position a stereo sound in 3D space.
Hope this helps.
Cara :)
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On Dec 13, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Support <supp...@blindaudiogames.com> wrote:
A couple more questions I forgot to ask in the first email:
While my main focus is to play 3D sounds in OpenAL it would also be nice
to play non-positioned stereo sounds in it as well.
Is this possible? Do you have to load a second AudioContext with
different settings to make this work?
In my current setup I use DirectSound for 3D sounds and
DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback for all other sounds.
It seems that OpenAL leaves parsing the sound files up to the developer.
I do have code for parsing a .wav file, but it would also be nice to use
mp3 and ogg vorbis for the stereo sounds and music. Is there a
recommended library for getting this benefit? I am using C#, but in
general popular C libraries have C# wrappers that I can use.
Being able to play stereo sounds and music in OpenAL would be one step
closer to cross platform.
I also saw a comment in one of the text files in OpenAL Soft that
indicated that it could play 3D mono and multi-channel sounds.
Can it actually play multi-channel audio in 3D space? Assuming I set the
position of the left track and the position of the right track in 3D
space?
The statement they made could be read as meaning that both mono and
multi-channel sounds could be played in 3D.
Or maybe the 3D adjective applied only to the mono sounds.
Again, I appreciate any help.
Ian Reed
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