Whats the deal with OpenAL?

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8 comments, last by Sik_the_hedgehog 11 years, 5 months ago

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Anyone know a permissive licensed (MIT,BSD,zlib,...) 3D audio library?
i would like something like that smile.png

When developing for windows, why not use XAudio2 (microsoft/windows) ?
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What do you do when you want to support platforms other than Windows though?
Don't pay much attention to "the hedgehog" in my nick, it's just because "Sik" was already taken =/ By the way, Sik is pronounced like seek, not like sick.
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Wrap the platform specific library up in an interface and then swap out the backend with whatever the official API is for every platform?
What's wrong with OpenAL anyway? The implementation is propriety, so what? XAudio2 is propriety as well.

Wrap the platform specific library up in an interface and then swap out the backend with whatever the official API is for every platform?

I think the whole point of what he's asking for is so he doesn't have to do that for starters (also if Linux ever gets in the mix you can forget any sanity when it comes to audio APIs).
Don't pay much attention to "the hedgehog" in my nick, it's just because "Sik" was already taken =/ By the way, Sik is pronounced like seek, not like sick.

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