audiere and irrlicht

[saulotmalo]

hello I don't know if it is the better location to post so.. sorry if bother. I'm trying to do an audiere an irrlitch integration but when i play 2 sounds at the same time one on them does not play.... can it be helped or it is because the library?

thanks

[Luke]

I think I had the same problem, I'd like to find out it's possible too.

[saulotmalo]

so you're using another library or are you using this still? i mean i can change the api for me it is the same use audiere or other if other works better.

[Warchief]

Weird i had no problems with Audiere. Have you opened one stream for each file?

[saulotmalo]

No, i've opened only one stream. One for every one will be a lot of work for the pc, don't you think?... or if it is stored in memory it does consume memory or cpu?

UPDATE: I've tried to use a circular buffer and it works but... i think it overhead something

for(int p=0;p<10;p++){
sonidos[p]=audiere::OpenSound(sistemaSonido, "test.mp3", false);

[Warchief]

I did not take care about freeing streams. Think audiere does it (as they are smart pointers).

But if you want to be sure, just register a callback.

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/**
   * To listen for stream stopped events on a device, implement this interface
   * and call registerStopCallback() on the device, passing your
   * implementation.  streamStopped() will be called whenever a stream on that
   * device stops playback.
   *
   * WARNING: StopCallback is called from another thread.  Make sure your
   * callback is thread-safe.
   */
  class StopCallback : public Callback {
  protected:
    ~StopCallback() { }

  public:
    EventType ADR_CALL getType() { return ET_STOP; }
    void ADR_CALL call(Event* event) {
      streamStopped(static_cast<StopEvent*>(event));
    }

    /**
     * Called when a stream has stopped.
     *
     * @param event  Information pertaining to the event.
     */
    ADR_METHOD(void) streamStopped(StopEvent* event) = 0;
  };
  typedef RefPtr<StopCallback> StopCallbackPtr;

Delete the stream when it stops.

[saulotmalo]

i think with this it will stop playing the background music

[Warchief]

The event has a member OutputStreamPtr StopEventImpl::m_stream that gives a pointer to the stream that stopped. You should only free that one.

[saulotmalo]

Thanks for the help, but in the game that i'm doing actually it runs well like i post before so.. il let it be. But i'll try to understant this way too.

thanks

[BlindSide]

Is it a good idea to use only audiere for BGM and IrrKlang for sound effects, etc? That seems to be the best way for me right now...

[Warchief]

Thanks for the help, but in the game that i'm doing actually it runs well like i post before so.. il let it be. But i'll try to understant this way too.

thanks

It works, but you may find continuous allocations if you continue loading sounds. Just make sure you store the streams into a container and pick up from there. (For example, allow a maximum of 3 streams for the same sound).

@Blindside
I would prefer to go just with 1 library.

[saulotmalo]

i've just did that i made a circular buffer for the sound as in my game only have has much 4 diferent sounds running at the same time i use 4 buffers and they are stream so i think it will run well