[Openal] AL_POSITION Freaks Out

[Garin Hiebert]

We do need better documentation on stereo behavior -- sorry.  I'll take  
a note to fix the alSourcefv issue.

Thanks for the feedback!

Garin

On Feb 7, 2004, at 5:52 PM, Seth Willits wrote:

> 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.
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