[Bf-committers] Re: game engine sound interferes with sequencer sound

[Kent Mein]

In reply to erwin at erwincoumans.com (erwin at erwincoumans.com):

> 
> Why can't we stop/shutdown SDL sound before the game engine starts, and 
> exclusively activate OpenAL while the game engine is running?
> Or is the bug more subtle then that? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Erwin 

Actually the issue is the other way around.  The SoundSystem code
needs to be modified so it gets initiated when you start the
game engine, and then shut off when stopped.  Currently its
initalized globaly and thats the issue.

It shouldn't be too hard to fix, and I've had it on my todo for awhile now.
I'll eventually get to it. ;)
If anyone wants to ask me questions about it though I can give lots of
pointers.

Kent

> 
> Tom M writes: 
> 
> >Is there some way we can fix this in the code?  Essentially any user
> >that tries to use sound in the sequencer (on linux or our other
> >platforms too?) is going to think that sound is broken unless they
> >have stumbled across the hints that you need to disable game engine
> >sound via command line (or some other tricks) to use the sequencer.
> >This was brought up at the conference, and is in a current bug report. 
> >
> >anyone familiar with openal and sdl and why they are having this
> >conflict and how we can fix it? 
> >
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