On Thursday 30 October 2008 03:46:51 am Darragh Bailey wrote:
Just out of curiousity, have any of these limitations been raised with the OpenAL developers? Any of them in its future wish list?
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.
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?
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.