[Openal] How to select output channel

[Jason Daly]

Martin Diz wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 13:34, Daniel PEACOCK 
> <dpeacock at creativelabs.com <mailto:dpeacock at creativelabs.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Another option would be to create a 5.1 (or 7.1) audio stream on
>     the fly and put the mono audio data into the appropriate
>     channel(s) and silence in the remaining channels. You could do
>     this for each input channel or if you have lots of channels then
>     you could mix everything together into one 5.1 (or 7.1) stream.
>
> Hello, would you please point me to a document or web page with info 
> to do this? I read the openAL 1.1 pecification document, but the only 
> thing i found is that buffers can handle only 2 channels, I'm wrong?

The AL_EXT_MCFORMATS extension (which most of the major implementations 
now support), adds several new format specifications for multi-channel data.

The specification isn't very descriptive, but you can see the additional 
format tags here:

    http://tinyurl.com/d8f9mu

--"J"
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