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Sound Related:
Dolby Digital Sound System
Dolby Surround (Dolby Pro Logic)
Dolby Pro Logic II (Dolby Surround 5.1)
Stereo audio
Redbook Audio (Compact Disc Digital Audio;CDDA)
Mockingboard soundcard
Miles Sound System (MSS)
KidVid audio player peripheral
Vorbis audio encoding
OpenAL (OAL;Open Audio Library)
Voice control (Audio input;Voice input;Speech recognition)
Supercharger audio gameloader
FMOD audio engine
Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX)
Environmental Audio Extensions 2 (EAX 2.0)
Environmental Audio Extensions 3 (EAX 3.0;EAX Advanced HD)
Environmental Audio Extensions 4 (EAX 4.0)
Environmental Audio Extensions 5 (EAX 5.0)
BASS audio library


Zerothis - 2008-09-09 04:00:35

Presence of OpenAL can easily be noticed (in Windows) if the game directories contain any of the following files: OpenAL32.dll, wrap_oal.dll and alut.dll

Sanguine 2007-11-06 11:09:37

Currently maintained and developed by Creative Technology with help from Apple and the FOSS community.

Supported platforms:
* Mac OS 8/9
* Mac OS X
* Linux
* BSD
* Solaris
* IRIX
* Windows
* Xbox
* X360

Currently supports stereo and 4 channel surround sound. Apparently surround sound breaks (falls back to stereo) with setups that have more than 4 channels/speakers (at least on Linux).

Sanguine 2007-10-29 12:14:43 - source

OAL runs in separate thread automatically (I have no idea how to disable this, nor why would I want to do that). The API is extremely simple to use because of this.

Speaking from personal experience, it took me less than a day to write a crude Ogg audio player with OAL. And most of the time went into understanding Vorbis library (for reading and decoding the audio file) than into learning OAL (both of which I had never before used - nor was I familiar with OGL, which supposedly shares a similar API). OAL also handles sound position and movement in 3D in quite simple manner, so there's even less for the programmer to do.

Sanguine 2007-10-20 01:19:36

 BioShock win

 Doom 3 win

 UFO: Afterlight win

 BioShock x360

 Star Wars: Republic Commando win

 Trigger unix