[Openal] Replacing QuickTime with OpenAL

[StApostol]

There is nothing stopping you from distributing OpenAL Soft with your
application. If you don't use EFX effects, your users won't lose any
significant functionality compared to the OpenAL implementation shipped with
the audio card's drivers.

On 6/6/08, Dan Peacock <danthelegoman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Also - just a FYI ... on cards that do have the ability to capture
> their own output (on Creative boards this feature is called
> "What-U-Hear") ... this is *all* the audio output from the system -
> not just one particular application.  i.e. If you are playing music
> with WMP at the same time as your application, you will capture that
> too.
>
>
> Dan
>
>
> On 6/5/08, Jason Daly <jdaly at ist.ucf.edu> wrote:
> > Chris Robinson wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 June 2008 05:28:07 am Petr Mikšík wrote:
>
> > The capture extension is likely present on any implementation so long as
> > the
> hardware supports capture. That should work fine as long as your card is
> > set
> up to capture output. Open a playback device, open a capture device,
> > then
> capture samples regularly as you use the playback device normally.
>
> >
> > This is tricky, though.  You first have to have hardware that supports
> > capture of the PCM channel.  I know Creative cards typically support
> this,
> > but in my experience, most on-board sound chips don't.  Typically, you
> can
> > only capture from the ADC channels (mic or line).  They probably do this
> > because it's easy for a novice user to set up a feedback loop between an
> > input and the PCM channel.
> >
> > Even on hardware that supports it, you have to be sure that the PCM
> channel
> > is selected for capture, and OpenAL has no control over this.
> >
> > Like Chris said, if this app is only used internally, you're probably
> fine
> > with using OpenAL-Soft and the "wave" backend.  If you're shipping this
> > application, there might not be an adequate solution for you in OpenAL
> land.
> >
> >
> > --"J"
> >
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