[Openal-devel] openal-soft

[Stephen A.]

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:50:35 +0200, Chris Robinson <chris.kcat at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Wednesday 06 February 2008 05:58:09 pm Lukasz Pawelczyk wrote:

>> If you made an effort to implement them would be nice to know what to
>> look for while testing games as well to provide some feedback about
>> that, and maybe compare to windows implementation.
>
> The EFX10Show example in the SDK is the best thing to test it. Some of  
> the
> behaviors of it with Creative's software driver are kind of odd though,  
> but I
> think it's a fair reproduction within spec. Of course, if anyone can find
> more apps that use it (perhaps get people to use it in some open source
> programs), I'd like to hear of them. :)
>

We have recently added Efx support to the OpenTK library (open source) and  
will soon add usage samples. I am planning to write a simple app which  
allows you to apply different reverb/occlusion/etc parameters on the fly  
and test playback. Does OpenAL-soft support capture? (for getting  
reproducible results)


>> It would be also nice to popularize this implementation a little to keep
>> you motivated to develop it and let people know that they got a solid
>> OpenAL alternative. Some freshmeat/sourceforge projects as mentioned
>> earlier would be nice. I also made short note on FS2 forums in my old
>> thread about sound statics, but there are windows users mainly :-)
>
> Just letting people know that there are other implementations besides the
> stagnant SI seems to be the best way. And I actually tried to apply for a
> freshmeat/sourceforge project back around christmas time, but neither
> responded.

Why don't you try re-applying to sourceforge? It's unlikely a project like  
OpenAL-soft will be turned down, your email might have gotten lost. This  
library deserves some attention! ;)