[Openal] How can I play mono wav sound in specific channel?

[Daniel PEACOCK]

OpenAL is a 3D positional API, primarily created to virtualize sounds over
different loud speaker systems or headphones.

You have two possible methods of putting a sound effect in a side-left or
side-right speaker.

a) Position the mono sound to the immediate left or right of the listener.
It is best to make the sound head-relative (AL_SOURCE_RELATIVE) and,
assuming you don't want any attenuation, position the sound at distance
less than or equal to the Reference Distance.

b) Manually package the mono data into a 7.1 audio stream in the
appropriate channel.   You can of course package one mono stream in the
Side Left channel and another mono stream into the Side Right channel and
play one 7.1 file.   If the audio changes at run-time then you will need to
dynamically package and stream the 7.1 audio data to OpenAL.

I would favour option (b) if you want to guarantee that no audio "leaks"
from the side channels into any other channels (which might happen as a
result of the 3D positional algorithms used).

Dan
Creative Labs (UK) Ltd.

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Hi Folks;

I have an project and in this project I have an SoundServer application. I
have implemented by OpenAL. But as I have realized that, there is no
channel controlling chance indirectly. OpenAL takes all controls about the
sound in its hands.

But I have an 7.1 speaker and 2 of them (Side Left and Side Right) are
different room and the others are different room where each room sound
isolated from each other. I have kind oe sounds and some of them could be
heard from only room1 and some of them could be heard from only room2.
So how can achive play different wav sound from different channel to direct
each related rooms?

Thanks for your helps.
Best Regards.

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