Mark P. McCahill wrote:

>
> On Feb 20, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:
>
>> Sure it does, and thanks for contributing.
>> I'm on the Croquet dist-list and I've been reading the progress.
>>
>> I think OpenAL would be especially useful for games and tools that I 
>> am developing. AFAIK, though, OpenAL hasn't been meet with a large 
>> amount of approval (maybe enthusiasm) by the audio development 
>> community, but that's just my peripheral assessment from lists such 
>> as Alsa, Linux-audio-user, etc.
>>
> I suppose we could look at some other library, but OpenAL
> seemed good enough for now in the Croquet context, is on the
> platforms we need, and had licensing terms we could live with.
> Do you have some ideas for alternatives?

Not for 3D audio playback, no.
Unfortunately, OpenAL does not have recording capabilities. It's really 
geared for 3D playback..

One suggestion that I and others have made was to use PortAudio as the 
interface for platform specific facilities. The licensing model seems 
appropriate, is actively updated and works on several platforms.
(http://www.portaudio.com/)

See also their v19 status:
http://www.portaudio.com/docs/proposals/status.html

>> Question: will OpenAL support be added to the base 3.x image?
>
> I'm a little unclear on who decides what goes into the
> base 3.x image and the process to get something in.
> Maybe someone can enlighten me?

me too!


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