[Openal] Buffer size problem

[Jimmy Gervais]

You pointed the right place, but the real problem was my understanding of
the* rand() *function. In another langage it generates a floating point
value between 0 and 1, which I can multiply by the max value I want. But in
C++, in generates an integer between 0 and MAX_RAND, which already is 2^16.
Also, my conversion was to ALuint, instead of short. The only thing left was
to randomize the sign too, because 16bits audio is signed, which leads to:

 Tampon1[i] = rand() * (short)pow(-1,(rand() % 2) == 1);

Also, I noted that when the buffer is too small, that being under 8192, the
Source State is AL_INITIATE, so looking for AL_STOPPED only is no good.

Now everything works fine, so thank you so much for your help!

Jimmy

2009/7/4 Chris Robinson <chris.kcat at gmail.com>

> On Friday 03 July 2009 11:26:04 pm Jimmy Gervais wrote:
> > The call *needs *a ALvoid pointer, it is specified and otherwise returns
> an
> > error, hence to copy.
>
> In C++, any pointer type can implicitly cast to a void*, as long as it
> doesn't
> remove const-ness. Setting PTampon1 to Tampon1 like you do does the same
> work,
> but is harder to follow.
>
> Even if it needs the cast (by not recognizing ALvoid* as void*), then this
> would work, too:
> alBufferData(MesTampons[0], AL_FORMAT_STEREO16, (ALvoid*)Tampon1, taille,
>             44100);
>
> > Now it doesn't crash, not even with 500MB, but I got *no sound at all*!!
>
> Probably the way you're generating the sound:
>
>        AleatD = rand() * pow(2,16);
>        Aleat = (ALuint)AleatD;
> pow(2,16) = 1<<16 = 0x10000
> 0xABCD * 0x1000 = 0xABCD0000
>
>        Tampon1[i] = Aleat;
> (short)0xABCD0000 = 0x0000
>
> The value given by rand() is effectively shifted up by 16 bits, which
> leaves
> the bottom 16 bits as 0. When cast to a short, it takes the bottom 16 bits,
> which will always be 0 (silence).
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