[sldev] Updated streaming patch, would like to commit

[Tofu Linden]

FYI - OpenAL Soft is what the official SL builds ship with on Linux.

Jason Giglio wrote:
> I should point out that "OpenAL" is an unmaintained sample implementation.
> 
> http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html
> 
> OpenAL Soft is an attempt to maintain OpenAL and make it a usable
> library instead of a sample implementation.
> 
> -Jason
> 
> 
> Anders Arnholm wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 02:19:08AM +0200, Dale Glass wrote:
>>> On Среда 01 апреля 2009 01:43:29 Tofu Linden wrote:
>>>> FMOD has its own streaming audio implementation which is used by
>>>> default when FMOD is enabled - gst/qt are always used for streaming
>>>> video, but are only used for streaming *audio* when FMOD is
>>>> disabled (i.e. you're using OpenAL).
>>> Ahh, I see I've not been digging deep enough.
>>>
>>> Ok. And with OpenAL there, what prevents the removal of FMOD? With
>>> OpenAL getting added, I imagine FMOD should disappear at some point?
>> Imho, sadly OpenAL + PulseAudio + Unbuntu is noit stable. However 1.22.x
>> was the last I tested it much and imho the imprudance version i hacked
>> was stable. Now this are two different machined my development and my
>> runtime. Maybe, just maybe flash video in firefox, locks some sound
>> resource interfearing with this. As long LL can send and the FMOD code
>> don't need extra suppport i like to see it included.
>>
>>> But I guess this means fmod support will be needed for the time being at 
>>> least. I'll try to add support for that as well then.
>> FMod don't have as nice support for this a gstreamer, the patch you did
>> was the obvius next step when i hacked openal for imprudance.
>>
>> / Balp
>>
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