[Openal] multichannel output

[Artem Baguinski]

Thanks Jason

yes this sounds like what we need, and even if it doesn't work out of
the box anymore there are sources.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Jason Daly <jdaly at ist.ucf.edu> wrote:
> Artem Baguinski wrote:
>
> > we'd like to adjust the sound scape for the primary visitor in
> > realtime, based on relative positions of the visitor and ther
> > speakers, to maintain the illusion of sound sources located inside the
> > room - between the speakers. the rest of the audience sort of hears
> > the soundscape from wrong perspective - not unlike secondary
> > (untracked) viewers in VR Cave see the images distorted, while the
> > primary (tracked) viewer sees it just right.
> >
> > it is my understanding that this isn't something openal is designed to
> > do out of the box, but may be there are some tricks to at least
> > approximate this?
> >
> >
>
>  A guy named Dirk Ehlke wrote a modification to the old OpenAL SI to do
> exactly this several years ago, including adding new functions to set the
> the speaker positions and position the physical listener within the space.
> This is a link to his work (I checked and it's still good):
>
>  http://www.mip.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~olduser/DirkEhlke/
>
>  I have no idea if his version still works at all, but it seems to be
> exactly what you want to do.
>
>  --"J"
>
>



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cheers,
artm

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