Questions tagged [openal]

OpenAL (Open Audio Library) is a cross-platform audio API that allows for efficient rendering of environmental, 3D positional audio.

OpenAL (Open Audio Library) is a cross-platform audio API that allows for efficient rendering of environmental, 3D positional audio.

OpenAL utilizes an extension mechanism in order to allow vendors to provide additional functionality.

It is often in games through extensions such as LWGJL.

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Is it possible in OpenAL to directly choose a recording device?

I have never worked with OpenAL before, and have been looking at some example code. However, before I start testing code in my program, I want to know if there's a way to select a specific recording device for input (perhaps by way of a combo box…
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How to compile OpenAL program with g++ (Ubuntu)?

I am trying to find a way of getting OpenAL to work on my computer: Ubuntu 12.10 (running on 2010 intel i7 Macbook Pro) I installed the OpenAL library from the terminal: $ sudo apt-get install libopenal-dev Everything went well. Now I tried to…
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Some basic questions about OpenAL buffers

I just started working with OpenAL and everything seems fine so far, i've tried some tutorials, managed to load and play some sounds, but before i start implementing something more complex, i'd like to make sure i understand how OpenAL…
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Streaming Audio with OpenAL and FFMPEG

Alright, basically I'm working on a simple video player and I'll probably be asking another question about lagging video\syncing to audio later, but for now I'm having a problem with audio. What I've managed to do to is go through all of the audio…
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open al sounds don't play after the incoming call, until app restart

I'm playing game sounds using OpenAL, and bg music using standard AV. Recently i've found that after the incoming call all openal sounds don't work while bg music is still playing. If I force stop app and start again sounds appear again. Do smbd…
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3D Audio Library for Android

I have searched everywhere on the internet for a solution for this and I can't seem to find a definitive answer. Basically, I'm looking to implement a 3D audio environment on the android platform. What I'm searching for is an android library that is…
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How to install OpenAL SDK on Ubuntu?

I'm very new to Linux and programming on Linux. I'm trying to install OpenAL SDK on ubuntu ... My best guess is that I will need to download OpenAL from the CVS repo. I found a tutorial:…
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Sound capture with OpenAL on iOS

I am trying to do sound capture on iOS using OpenAL (I am writing a cross-platform library, that's why I avoid iOS-specific ways to record sound). Out of the box OpenAL capture does not work, but there exists a known workaround: open an output…
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Simultaneous record/playing with OpenAL using threads

I've been trying to write a simple threaded audio capture/playback application (using OpenAL) as a precursor to attempting a voice chat application. I currently have the Capture & "Write" (save / playback) functions on separate threads and when…
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Buffering a Wav file with OpenAL (java and lwjgl)

In short, I don't want to load an entire wav file into anOpenAL buffer, and all of the tutorials to do so read in the entire .wav file at once. Are there any pages that describe a buffering scheme that I have missed? This is to be eventually…
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OpenAL iPhone: unable to play any sound

I'm trying to get to play a simple sound file through OpenAL by referring this tutorial: I've created a monolithic code from it to test initially, but cant get the sound to play. I've been trying a lot of stuff but I can't get the sound to play. Any…
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Setting Panning in OpenAL (iOS)

Using OpenAL, I am loading the sound in AL_FORMAT_STEREO16 format. I am trying to set the panning in OpenAL in iOS/iPhone platform? Do I need to set the AL_POSITION for the source? How do I set it?
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Basic OpenAL code to play a sound

I'm new using OpenAl library. I'm following the OpenAl programming guide but i can't find. I have this code extracted from page 10 of the OpenAl programming guide but still have no sound. I use OSX Snow Leopard, i know OSX doesn't have ALUT…
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How to make to work openAl in visual studio 2010

I have installed openAl in C:/ and followed a lots of tutorials how to make it work. It doesn't recognize al.h, alu.h, alut.h and others components from openAl. I don't know what to do. Can somebody help me? Thank you, Alex
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OpenAL Leak- OALSource:AddPlaybackMessage

I am currently using openAl in my game . I am getting the memory leak whose responsible frame is ` OALSource:AddPlaybackMessage ` What I am doing is that after my game finishes i delete all the buffers allocated to the Source and free other…
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