Re: [pygame] two soundcards

[Georg Bernhard <g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, Luke!

> couldn't you somehow use a surround-sound system with pygame?
> or does it not accomplish what you're trying to do?

I think Surround-Sound 5.1 would definitively accomplish what we would 
like to do. The 5.1 setup is somewhat like this:

#-#-#
|   |
| O |
#---#

There are FrontL - Center - FrontR speakers, then SurroundL and 
SurroundR and a Low Frequency Speaker. All channels are independent. If 
we just ignore the Center Speaker and the Subwoofer we are fine...

Is there support for Surround 5.1 in pygame? Rene Dudfield said that 
there is surround support in the (new) SDL with alsa, but is it in 
pygame already?

Dimitry Borisow pointed out that pymedia supports more than 1 sound card 
just fine and its documentation shows that there is support for 6 
channels, too:

http://www.pymedia.org/docs/pymedia.audio.sound.html#Resampler
8<------------------------------------------------
The following considerations are made for the mutltichannel audio streams:
        2 channels -> (left,right)
        3 channels -> (left,right,sub)
        4 channels -> (left_front,center,right_front,sub)
        5 channels -> (left_front,center,right_front,left_back,right_back)
        6 channels -> 
(left_front,center,right_front,left_back,right_back,sub)
------------------------------------------------>8

Unfortunately pymedia is only available for linux based systems, I would 
prefer a portable solution (like pygame) that works on Mac, Windows and 
Linux - if there is a portable solution to such a 'hardware related' 
problem at all...

So my final question is:
Does pygame support Surround Sound 5.1 already?

Regards,
And thanks everyone for helping me so quickly!!!
Gogo.



Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> Rene Dudfield wrote:
> > Short answer No.  Long answer Maybe.  You could do it with two
> > processes in linux... somehow.
> >
> >
> > On 4/12/06, Georg Bernhard <g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  
> > > Hello, pygame-users list!
> > >
> > > Is there a way to use two sound cards with pygame? I want to use 4
> > > seperate mono channels to play sounds from 4 different speakers. I
> > > thought of using two sound cards with (2x1) stereo channels. Is it
> > > possible to do this with pygame?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Georg Gogo. BERNHARD
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     
> >
> >   
> couldn't you somehow use a surround-sound system with pygame? or does it 
> not accomplish what you're trying to do?