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- To: "Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library Allegro" <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] auto detection of audio driver
- From: "Trent Gamblin" <trent@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:31:43 -0600 (MDT)
On Fri, September 18, 2009 1:07 pm, Evert Glebbeek said:
> On 18 Sep 2009, at 17:01 , Stefanos A. wrote:
>> 100% agreed that OpenAL should be last on the list on Linux - it just
>> adds latency there. On the other hand, it's probably a better solution
>> than DSound on Windows (OpenAL may be accelerated on some chips). No
>> idea about Macs, but it should be pretty well supported there.
>
> It's directly supported by Apple's audio subsystem.
> Not to mention it's the only audio interface we have on OS X. That's
> fine though, there's nothing to be gained by having an extra Core
> Audio driver, since OpenAL works properly on OS X (unlike Linux, it
> seems).
The Audio Queue driver would probably work on OS X.. I haven't
tried it though.
Trent :-)