[Openal] Status of Linux implementation

[Marian Schedenig]

On Friday 06 April 2007 17:46:09 Jason Daly wrote:
> As far as the handling of stereo buffers, I don't know if this has been
> changed yet (the handling of stereo buffers is part of the 1.1 spec, so
> it may have been updated).  If no one else responds soon, I'd suggest
> you try out the latest SVN version.

Well, I've done just that, and I was sorry to find out that it's still unable 
to play music in stereo. I find this quite disappointing, as I'm now faced 
with the choice of either sticking to OpenAL for its multichannel support and 
yet only being able to play music through a single channel, or to switch to 
some other library (probably SDL) and have multichannel music, but no 
surround effects. When I first faced this choice some two years or so ago, I 
was confident the situation was going to change soon... apparently, I was too 
optimistic.

(Actually, there's a third option... but somehow I don't think playing a music 
stream through two separate channels separately to manually achieve a stereo 
effect would be good for the performance?)

Thx,
Marian.

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