[Openal] Looping sounds broken on linux?

[Tim Angus]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:43:56 -0500 (EST) Ed wrote:
> You might try making the sound longer (duplicate it so it's .25
> seconds long or possibly more)... for some reason, in my experience,
> the UNIX version of OpenAL doesn't play tiny looped samples correctly
> (althought, the Windows version played our tiny looped sample fine).
> I reported this issue a while back... but I don't know what's causing
> it.

The reason I put this test together in the first place was because I
was having problems with looping much longer samples (several seconds).
Presumably there are generally no restrictions on the length of the
sample, e.g. it doesn't need to be a multiple of the sample rate in
length or something?