[Openal] Multiple Contexts On One Device
Jason Daly
jdaly at ist.ucf.edu
Thu Jul 19 11:20:47 PDT 2007
Daniel PEACOCK wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Actually most of the Windows implementations of AL do not support
> multiple contexts on a single device at the moment. There needs to be
> some re-architecting of the code to allow this to happen - and some
> special consideration for hardware because the fixed amount of
> resources would need to be shared somehow (e.g if one context
> generated as many Sources as it could, then the 2nd context wouldn't
> be able to generate any Sources).
>
Ah, I wasn't aware of that. Sorry for the misinformation. Since the
OpenAL-Sample implementation is entirely software-based, there's no hard
limit on the resources. It should handle multiple contexts fine, but
I'm not sure how well-tested it is.
--"J"
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