[sldev] Lip-sync

[Tim Shephard]

I'm not sure SL being truly free is in anyones best interests at this point.

On 3/2/07, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:35 -0500, Mike Monkowski wrote:
> >     I've just started looking at the audio parts of SecondLife, but I
> > see that it uses FMOD 3.7.4 for streaming audio, although I don't
> > imagine that includes voice.  It's not clear what's going on there.
> > Will it be converted to FMOD Ex 4? (see http://www.fmod.org/ )  Will it
> > rely on ViVox for voice? (see http://www.vivox.com/millionmins.html )
>
> Second Life is not truly free until it stops depending on closed source
> libraries. FMOD needs to die. OpenAL is the way to go, OpenAL is well
> supported on Windows (Its the only hardware accelerated API available in
> Vista!), Mac OS X (Ships in Tiger) and of course, Linux. OpenAL can
> fully replace fmod on all supported platforms.
>
> I guess I'll take a whack at writing OpenAL support if no one else does.
>
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