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From stable branch: fixed up timidity and mpglib Makefile.am files.
author | Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org> |
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date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:17:39 +0000 |
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- Mixes internally in Float32. This simplifies the code immensely by only having one format to screw with. It also makes life easy for end-user callbacks. A native Float32 format should be added to SDL, too, so there isn't unnecessary conversion if we can avoid it (i.e. - a CoreAudio backend). - "Chunks" are just Sound_Samples...you can lock the mixer to screw with them (i.e. - seeking in a playing Sample, etc). The mixer adds some opaque state to Sound_Sample (current play position, how much is decoded, etc), some of which can be queried and set. - There is no "stopped" state. You are either in the playing list or you are not, but state doesn't reset, so removing a sample from the list is more like pausing it. If you put it back in the playing list without rewinding it, it starts where it was. - Fire and forget mixing is easy; flag a sample as "auto free" and it'll delete itself when it's done playing. No need to set up a callback just to clean up. - No channels. You can mix as many samples as you have resources to accomodate. - No groups. This can be layered on top of the library if needed. If you need atomic operations, lock the mixer. - No music channel. Samples are samples. You can mix a MIDI as a sound effect if you want, or a WAV file for background music. If you have the horsepower to decode multiple compressed files at once, go for it. - You can prebuffer/predecode as much of a sample as you like. - Every sample mixes with a per-channel gain, plus a master gain that is global to the mixer. - Can handle non-power of two resampling. - post mix hook, sample finished hook. Effects callback?