[vorbis-dev] Cross Platform Mixers and LibAO

[Stan Seibert]

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 16:15, Ben Rockwood wrote:
>   I'm in the proccess of writing an OggVorbis audio player using libao and
>   libvorbisfile.  I've greatly appreciated the simplicity of the API and
>   good documentation with the souce of the libraries.  I've descided that I really want a mixer on my player, and I'm unsure
>   how to best go about it.  LibAO (unless I'm absolutely blind) doesn't
>   provide mixer control, and looking at how other poeople have implemented
>   their mixers tend to use a number of #ifdef'd mixer functions, one for
>   OSS, one for ALSA, one for Solaris, etc.   I'm curious if anyone could suggest the best way to implement a mixer
>    in a crossplatform manner that would best jive with libao.  I've like
>    the player being simple yet still running on Solaris, Linux, and
>    FreeBSD without problems, I'd hate to cludge it up if I can avoid it. 
>    At the moment I'm just using an OSS mixer, but am ready to re-write the
>    mixer code.  Is it possibly that at some point in the future libao
>    might include mixer functions?
>   Any thoughts are appreciated.

Have you looked at SDL and SDL_mixer?  Those APIs are fairly
cross-platform, and will probably do better for you.


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Stan Seibert

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