[Openal] playing a raw buffer

[Chris Robinson]

On Thursday 23 April 2009 6:14:31 am gmail wrote:
> Hello Chris and all,
>
> thanks for the help, anyway i am still  stucked on this problem.
> It really seems it is a kind of AL problem, even if probably it will not :)
>
> The entire code is quite great, so i try to pseudo-explain better the
> problem:
>
> I have a gui app, then a thread, with his own source/albuffers, that
> receive data from the network and play the data.
> Then, occasionally, my application can pop up a file-manager dialog, and
> play, through another thread with another alsource, a recorded file with
> raw data.

It's difficult to say without seeing any code that can reproduce the problem.

If you have a freshly generated source and buffer, and the buffer is properly 
filled with all the data, it should all play from beginning to end. If you 
don't use a fresh source, or if the buffer didn't fill with the start of the 
data, that possibly could cause the symptoms you describe, but I can't say for 
sure without seeing what the code does. You can try calling alSourcef(source, 
AL_SEC_OFFSET, 0.0f); right before alSourcePlay, and make sure the file handle 
starts from the beginning of the file when you read into the buffer, but I'm 
just guessing at the problem..