[Openal] Some frustrations with openAL sample code

[Jason Daly]

Scott Mayo wrote:
>
> Not being much of a Microsoft fan, I feel your pain. The bottom line is,
> though,
> it's openAL's job to handle this, even if it takes COM calls. I sympathize,
> I really do.
> But Vista's been out for over a year now, and it seems to me that if openAL
> is a serious
> offering, there's been time to get it to work with Vista. And that doesn't
> seem
> to have happened. And that's just plain frightening.
>   

Don't be frightened! 

One thing to keep in mind that OpenAL proper is just a specification.  
Implementations are separate issues.

Creative has a native implementation that works fine with Vista on 
Creative hardware.  OpenAL-Soft works fine, as long as it can figure out 
how many speakers you have (which seems to be a problem on Vista at the 
moment).

At the moment, that's all we seem to have as far as Vista support.  If 
you've got a problem, either yell at your hardware manufacturer and let 
them know you want a native implementation, or give people like Chris 
some time to figure out Vista's nastiness.

We do this in our spare time, and we don't charge for it, so please be 
patient.

Of course, you're always welcome to figure it out yourself, implement 
it, and send a patch :-)

--"J"

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