Re: [pygame] two soundcards

["Rene Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Have you looked into openAL ?

There is an ok python binding available...  I used it for a ludumdare
48h competition a few years ago.

It worked ok.

For debian...
apt-get install python-openal

Here's the page... http://oomadness.nekeme.net/PyOpenAL



On 4/21/06, Georg Bernhard <g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well,
>
> we want to play sounds on 4 channels, 'positioning' a sound in a room.
> It is an art project in vienna, austria, we consider an installation
> with quadrophonic sound. we have samples of sounds, as wav or mp3. our
> system would pick one of the sounds (randomly) and pan it around in the
> room by changing the volume of each channel.
>
> we have one experimental solution where we would use system time and
> *want* the system to work incorrect
>
> we still look for a solution that is correct.
>
> but we do have more time now since the project will not happen next week
> as we planned first. we take our time to do it right.
>
> pygame is the software i'd like most to use for it.
> it is pretty portable and easy to use. after all it is python.
>
> :-)
>
> Gogo.
>
>
>
> Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> > [snip]
> >>
> >> 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...
> > [/snip]
> > I don't know if certain parts of pymedia are linux-dependent, but it
> > seems to work just fine on my windows system, and OSX is based on some
> > form of
> > *nix code isn't it?
> > back to pymedia, I got it to play audio files and such, at least.  I'm a
> > little confused by the documentation and swamped by Calculus homework so
> > I haven't gotten
> > a chance to really check it out, but I believe it works correctly.
> > I also don't have a surround sound system( I am using an on-board sound
> > card) nor do I know if pygame has any support for 5.1 yet.
> > What are you guys trying to make by the way?
> > cheers,
> > -Luke
> >
>
>