[Openal] Difference between pausing and stopping?

[Garin Hiebert]

Nolan Darilek wrote:
> Is there a difference between what happens when a source is paused or 
> stopped, other than the AL_SOURCE_STATE being set differently?
>
> In my higher-level layer, I'm thinking of making pausing stop the 
> source and preserve the current playing location, while stop performs 
> a rewind after. Is there any disadvantage to using alSourceStop() in 
> both instances?

The difference is as you describe -- calling alSourcePlay after pausing 
will resume from the position the source was when it was paused and 
calling alSourcePlay after stopping will resume from the beginning of 
the buffer(s).

There's no inherent performance or resource advantage to using stop/set 
offset/play over pause/play -- so don't hesitate to do things the way 
that seems most appropriate for your audio engine.

Garin