[OpenAL]Linux Play back Lag Issue

[Jason Daly]

steve wrote:
> Hi:
> I have another problem on Linux. When my game loads a mesh and plays sound.
> It sounds jerkily. I wonder if Openal creates another thread to play sound ?
> Does openal play sound smoothly when the application is busy on Linux? My
> game doesn't have this problem on XP.
>   

Unless you specifically create the context with AL_SYNC, there will be a 
thread spawned to handle the mixing.  I use OpenAL all the time under 
Linux and don't have this problem.

Are you using buffer queues, or just a single buffer?  If you're 
queueing buffers, it's up to your application to make sure the source 
always has at least one buffer queued to keep the sound from skipping.

--"J"