[Openal] Is it possible? Load a WAV file without a sound card

[Jason Daly]

Stefanos A. wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:43 +1000, Jevon Kendon wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm trying the deprecated interface as what works online:
>>
>>   alutLoadWAVFile((ALbyte*)filename, &format, &data, &size, &freq, &loop);
>>   if (alGetError() != AL_NO_ERROR)
>>   {
>>     there was a problem.
>>   }
>>
>>   alutUnloadWAV(format, data, size, freq);
>>
>> Question is: Will these calls work if I don't initialize the device or
>> the context? i.e. use a machine that doesn't have a sound card?
>>     
>
> Even if you don't create a context, you have to initialize alut. In
> fact, there is a variant of alutInit that does exactly that.
>   

I don't think uou don't need to use the deprecated functions, either.  
Have a look at alutLoadMemoryFromFile().

--"J"

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