[Openal] Create multiply contexts

[Pradeep Dunna]

Hi Garin
I am trying to open  two different contexts on two different devices. And
trying to play voice on both of them at the same time. It is not working. I
see that alcGetCurrentContext() used every where to determine the current
context. There can be only one context that can be current at any time. So
it seems to be I can use only one context. I am not sure if I am using the
latest version of the code. I got the latest code using the command 
svn co http://www.openal.org/repos/openal/trunk 
Could you Please tell whether I am using proper sources, Also if
simultaneous Multiple Devices ever been tested using openAL.

Rgds
Pradeep

-----Original Message-----
From: openal-bounces at opensource.creative.com
[mailto:openal-bounces at opensource.creative.com] On Behalf Of Garin Hiebert
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:45 AM
To: noone88
Cc: openal at opensource.creative.com
Subject: Re: [Openal] Create multiply contexts


> Are there any known iusses with two contexts? Or iam doing someting wrong?
>   

There are known issues, although they haven't been fully explored yet.  
I just recently added specific mutli-device/multi-context testing to
Creative's test procedures, and there are bugs logged against it.  
Initial looks into the problem indicate that the router is having issues
(what our installer installs as "openal32.dll").  Also note that in many
cases (all the wrapper devices -- "Generic Hardware" and "Generic
Software"), the library will only create one context per device -- that's
not incorrect behavior by itself.

We do intend to fix the multi-device/multi-context issues, but that doesn't
necessarily mean you're going to be able to get multiple contexts per device
any time soon -- the fix may be to simply disallow this case where it is
causing problems.

The only scenario where I'm fairly confident you can now run multiple
contexts on a single system at once under Windows is one where you do the
following:

1)  Install two sound cards, at least one of them being a Creative or NVIDIA
card with native OpenAL support
2)  Enumerate available devices, selecting at least one native device as
well as one of the "Generic" devices
3)  Open each device separately, opening one context on each

If the above somehow doesn't work now, that's the kind of bug that I intend
to have fixed on the next release of the router.

Garin

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