On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:39:39AM +0100, Caolan McNamara came forth with:
> Right now esd seems to work, so I'd like to see the wagons circle around that
> one, don't know enough about the area to know if things like OpenAL from loki
> are elements that should be part of a sound API and migrated into a single esd
> based sound api and subsystem. As a factoid I heard a little blip a few days
> ago that it isn't ideal under solaris, some kind of bad maximum sampling rate
> detection.
I think OpenAL will be a good idea.. cross platform, vendor independent (in
the long run... Creative are working a lot on it at the moment). It'll be
nice when we can have something say "Just play this sound with this kind of
environment", and on a Live! it'll be nice and fast, and on all other cards
lovely and slowwwww... <g>
L.
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