OpenAL and DirectSound

[Detlef Riekenberg]

On Fr, 2006-11-17 at 17:31 +0100, Stefan Dösinger wrote:

> Just stumbled uppon some interesting thing about openal and DirectSound 3D on 
> vista: http://www.openal.org/openal_vista.html
> 
> It sounds like openal will be the old way to get hw accelerated 3d sound on 
> vista, and creative is writing a dsound -> openal wrapper. Maybe it gets a 
> proper license so we can include it in wine :-)
> 
> Maybe we should write an openal thunk for wine? Many games use openal, and it 
> seems that on wine openal uses directsound. That might work more better and 
> faster if we had a openal.dll which directly called linux openal :-)
> 
> Just dropping the suggestions :-)

There was something a while ago...


Google-Result for "wineopenal":
http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-June/048273.html


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