Play music file while render game graphics

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4 comments, last by Ravuya 17 years, 10 months ago
I'm building my first 3d game using Orge3d, How can I play music file while the game running? Do I have to use another thread? Any help would be apreciated, thanks
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Any decent sound library (such as FMod) will automatically play the sound in a separate thread. You just tell it to start playing.

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My game also have a network module

Is there any chance that the music playing be corrupted when network events occur?
Thanks for your answer :D
FMOD seems free to noncommercial project only
Is there any LGPL sound lib that can compare to FMOD?
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Just kidding
Here is one:

www.openal.org

I've never used it myself but I hear opinions it's slightly more difficult than FMOD
Quote:Original post by g8minhquan
My game also have a network module

Is there any chance that the music playing be corrupted when network events occur?


This is very unlikely; a decent modern operating system (and NT too, I guess [grin]) should have decent thread scheduling and will keep all of the threads running well enough.

You may run into some problems with extremely low resource environments (like a Pentium 75 or something) or seriously defective audio drivers but this is not a concern for the most part. A multithreaded design like this should be fine, but it can be proven fully via prototyping.

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