[Openal] about ogg compression

Mārtiņš Možeiko martins.mozeiko at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 09:42:19 PST 2005


> What you want to do (for any platform) is look up and try the 
> "libvorbis" library from Xiph.  It's a really easy fread/fwrite-like 
> interface for dealing with Ogg Vorbis files.  You can very easily 
> decompress small chunks of Ogg Vorbis data on the fly and pass it into 
> an AL buffer queue.
> 

This already is my backup plan.

> Why has Ogg Vorbis integration mostly disappeared from AL?  Mostly 
> because of libvorbis -- the interface is very simple, yet gives the app 
> developer a lot of flexibility.
> 
Ah so..

But why then this portable CVS module has libvorbis integration as 
extension even when build for Windows? Althrough I couldn't get working 
it. It reported "vorbis problems" on stderr.

But anyway thanks. I will now stick to libvorbis.

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Mārtiņš Možeiko




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