[Openal-devel] OpenAL on android/G1

[Chris Robinson]

On Friday 12 December 2008 09:30:37 am Sean Reilly wrote:
> Hi all,
>          I've used openAL on some other platforms, notably iphone and
> linux and I was wondering about the potential for running openAL on
> the G1?  Has anyone had any success in running openAL on this platform ?

Hi Sean.

I'm not aware of anyone having tried to use openal on it. However, as long as 
it has a decent FPU, it should be possible.

> 	Firstly what level of hardware support is required to run the openAL
> libraries  ? Can it run in  completely  software and would this be
> feasible on a 500mhz arm processor ?

OpenAL Soft, which is a software OpenAL implementation, works comfortably on a 
900MHz x86 processor running Windows with ~100 sounds playing at once. I'd 
imagine a 500mhz ARM could handle a decent amount of simultanious sounds, 
though you may have to disable some things. But the best way to find out 
what's needed is to try. :)

> 	Secondly what level of software support would be required in terms of
> Alsa or OSS etc. to get openAL running ?

OpenAL Soft 1.6 needs ALSA, OSS, Solaris' AudioIO, or DSound for sound output. 
The current GIT/SVN version can also use SDL. If the Android has one of them, 
it should work.

- Chris