[OpenAL] Some OGG questions

[chronozphere]

Hi all

Now i would like to get OGG playback working. So i went to Noeska's site, and downloaded the Ogg tutorial, which did not work for some reason The OGG extension was not found, even after putting the OGG DLL's in the EXE's directiory. I also couldn't locate "wrap_oal.dll", because the link on noeska's site was broken. :?

Secondly i tried the Oggplayer, which did work! Unfortunatly i could only hear the OGG file through one speaker, and that's quite a dissapointment considering the fact that i have a 5.1 surround sound set. The sound only came out of the left-front speaker. This was weird, because the OpenAL routines indicated that the file is stereo. That fact is also confirmed when i opened the OGG in goldwave. Why do i hear the sound just through one speaker?

This is a link to noeska's site:

http://www.noeska.com/doal/tutorials.aspx (check tut 9 and the Ogg-player)

Has anyone of you tried the ogg-tutorial lately? or can someone give me a hint how to get it working? Can someone show me how to get full stereo OGG playback?

Thanx.

[chronozphere]

OMGLOL :shock: I'm really being clumsy here. My right speaker didn't work because the audio-plug wasn't connected very well. At some point the thought crossed my mind that my right speaker was broken... fortunatly not

The remaining question is: Why did tutorial 9 not work? :?

Any suggestions?

[tpascal]

I also couldn't locate "wrap_oal.dll", because the link on noeska's site was broken. Confuse

Just download the instaler from here:

http://developer.creative.com/articl...&top=38&aid=46

look below ATTACHMENT, it is oalinst.exe, the instaler will copy wrap_oal.dll and Openal32.dll in \Windows\system32

[User137]

Unless noeska updated his ogg player, it still has same bugs as when i tried; have 1 cpu heavy lagspike in your application and music will freeze. For example opening a OpenDialog is 1 easy to think example...

[chronozphere]

I think i might be able to solve that. I think i have to increase the buffer size, and change some things so that OpenAL stops complaining when the buffer is empty. Maybe it's a good idea to stop the music temporarly when there is dangerously less data left in the buffer

After some googling i found out that Tutorial 9 doesn't work because AL_EXT_Vorbis is deprecated.
Take a look at this thread:

http://opensource.creative.com/piper...ay/010411.html

[noeska]

My ogg example code is based on a beta release of openal.