[Openal-devel] Multi channel Audio

[Chris Robinson]

On Friday 13 March 2009 12:04:53 am Richard Rosario wrote:
> Greetings to you,
>                     To play multichannel should I need to use OpenAL Soft.
> Is there any other way to support multi channel audio.

If the AL_EXT_MCFORMATS extension is available, you can play multi-channel 
sources. OpenAL Soft includes that extension, but some other implementations 
do too, AFAIK.

Multi-channel output, on the other hand, depends on the user.. if they have 
capable hardware (eg. non-ancient sound hardware, and better-than-stereo 
speakers), an implementation that can do multi-channel output, and is 
configured to do so. The app doesn't really control this.

> How to include OpenAL soft in to visual studio build.

Use Creative's OpenAL SDK. Install the redistributable, rename OpenAL Soft's 
DLL to soft_oal.dll and copy it to the same folder OpenAL32.dll is in. You 
don't need anything special. :)