DIrectSound on top of openAL ?

[Jérôme Gardou]

Chris Robinson a écrit :
> On Thursday 30 October 2008 03:46:51 am Darragh Bailey wrote:
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>> Just out of curiousity, have any of these limitations been raised with the
>> OpenAL developers? Any of them in its future wish list?
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> I'm the developer of OpenAL Soft <http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html>, 
> which is becoming the implementation to use on Linux and other Unices (as the 
> old Sample Implementation is deprecated/not maintained anymore). Though I'm 
> not really hands-in with Creative or anything.. just a hobbyist developer 
> making a Linux lib on his own time, who gives out his ideas.
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>> If OpenAL was updated with the next release 1.2+ to support the type of
>> access that wine needs to support the windows sound API's on linux,
>> would it make it easier that supporting multiple sound drivers?
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> I would like to see DirectSound(3D) running properly on OpenAL, even if as a 
> seperate project (eg. my DSound->OpenAL DLL project). It's not up to me 
> whether such a thing would get into Wine or not, though.
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I think that your dsound->openAL wrapper could be used verbatim in wine, 
if wine provides an openal32.dll <-> native openal wrapper (as with 
opengl32).

By the way, did you try your dll with vista, which dropped dsound 
hardware acceleration ?