[OpenAL]Linux Play back Lag Issue

[steve]

Thank you, Jason.
You are right. I didn't use double buffering for wav file.

      alutLoadWAVFile (szFile, &m_eFormat, &data, &size, &freq, &loop);
      PCMData (m_id[0], m_eFormat, data, size, freq);
Alut only provides load whole wav file.
Is partially loading wav file possible?

I couldn't find AL_SYNC in OpenAL programming glide or manual.
Could you show me the source?

steve

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"