[Openal-devel] OpenAL Soft 1.2.218 released

[Jason Daly]

Chris Robinson wrote:
> Any thoughts on this extension? Would it be useful? What values could I use 
> for the enums? Slightly updated this time (new enum and clarrified a bit of 
> the language):
>   

Seems reasonable to me.  It's a good step toward supporting explicit 
multichannel formats.  I imagine you've already got usages lined up for 
this in OpenAL-Soft, right?

I'm not convinced of the need to have separate ALC_FORMAT_HINT_EXT and 
ALC_FORMAT_EXT tokens for creation and query.  If you query the 
available formats and use one of them, it's not really a hint, because 
its already being supported.

On the other hand, if you don't query first and just specify a format, 
if it's supported, it will be used.  If it's not supported, context 
creation fails.

The only gray area I see is that all core formats have to be recognized, 
but not supported.  It's not really clear what happens when you specify 
a recognized format at context creation, but the implementation doesn't 
support it (this may be where the "hint" element comes in).  You might 
want to clarify this in the spec.

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