OpenAL and DirectSound

[Stefan Dösinger]

Hi,
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 :-)
Stefan

[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

[Nick Burns]

I would really like to get my openal driver into wine...
But we should also have an openal32.dll

For example -- on my Mac Book Pro running Mac OSX 10.4.8 and tot wine
If a windows application uses openal it will go from openal(windows) -> 
dsound HEL(wine) -> openal(osx)
This means the audio data has soo much fun traveling from api to api -- 
kinda like a code rollercoaster...

Anyhow -- I will resubmit my openal patch -- maybe if I get some time I will 
try to make a thunk (or I could help ... or work more)...

Also I would like help with my openal patch (get hw accel working for dsound 
and dsound3d)

- Nick
> From: Detlef Riekenberg 
> To: Stefan Dösinger 
> CC: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: OpenAL and DirectSound
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:06:01 +0100
>
> 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
>
> --
>
> By by ... Detlef

OpenAL and DirectSound -- openal32.dll first pass

[Nick Burns]

Sorry for the double post -- was unaware that '[e-mail]' was the same 
thing...

I was sick last night and could not sleep .: I wrote up an openal32.dll 
thunk.

I will be testing with ut2004/and the demos (hello_world and playfile) very 
soon...

I get sound with tracing but not without -- when it works ill submit a 
patch...

- Nick
> From: "Nick Burns" 
> To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
> CC: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: OpenAL and DirectSound
> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:29:42 -0800
>
> I would really like to get my openal driver into wine...
> But we should also have an openal32.dll
>
> For example -- on my Mac Book Pro running Mac OSX 10.4.8 and tot wine
> If a windows application uses openal it will go from openal(windows) -> 
> dsound HEL(wine) -> openal(osx)
> This means the audio data has soo much fun traveling from api to api -- 
> kinda like a code rollercoaster...
>
> Anyhow -- I will resubmit my openal patch -- maybe if I get some time I 
> will try to make a thunk (or I could help ... or work more)...
>
> Also I would like help with my openal patch (get hw accel working for 
> dsound and dsound3d)
> - Nick
> > From: Detlef Riekenberg 
> > To: Stefan Dösinger 
> > CC: [e-mail]
> > Subject: Re: OpenAL and DirectSound
> > Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:06:01 +0100
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> >
> > By by ... Detlef