[Openal] AL_POSITION Freaks Out

[Seth Willits]

On Feb 7, 2004, at 5:25 PM, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

>> First, it should be mentioned that you need to convert all sounds to
>> mono before using Creative's OpenAL on OS X because it will simply not
>> do any positioning at all.
>
> This isn't a bug; stereo sources do not spatialize. This was by design.

Someone said that the Linux implementation converts stereo to mono  
internally. At any rate, I had no idea that it needed to be mono. I  
didn't see that mentioned anywhere.


> The other issue is possibly a bug.

After ranting in a chatroom, someone suggested I try using 3f instead  
of fv. Guess what? Using alSource3f worked fine. Apparently it is a bug  
with alSourcefv.




Seth Willits
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