[Openal] HOWTO specify a backend/output at runtime?

[Chris Robinson]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 08:57:20 am Jason Daly wrote:
> Until recently, the sample implementation didn't have a real version of
> this enumeration mechanism (just a fake one that returned made-up device
> descriptions like the one above). Chris Robinson has recently
> contributed a patch to implement enumeration for real, but it hasn't
> been integrated yet.  (We don't currently have a full-time maintainer,
> just a few guys with real jobs who do this in their non-existent free
> time :-) ).

IIRC, that patch has gotten into the repo. There is a problem, however, that a 
device defined in ~/.openalrc will always override what's specified to 
alcOpenDevice, and the first device name opened will override the name in 
subsequent calls. I'm still trying to figure out how to fix that without 
breaking other things.