[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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