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General => General discussions => Topic started by: Laurent on February 22, 2008, 03:28:22 pm
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Hi :)
As most of you know, the audio package on Linux is buggy due to the very bad official implementation of OpenAL.
I finally tested openal-soft, which is a free implementation of OpenAL and promises to be more stable than the official one. After a few tests, I can say that it works 100%, no more bug or jerky sound.
What's new now :
- On Windows, there's no more need to install OpenAL with oalinst.exe, a copy of openal32.dll will be enough.
- On Linux, as openal-soft is not yet widely supported on the repositories, you will most likely have to compile it yourself. The good news is that as a compliant implementation of OpenAL, you won't have to recompile SFML nor your programs using it, just replacing the binaries will do the job. I think I'll put a version of the precompiled binaries in the next Linux SDK, it will be more convenient for most people ;)
More informations and downloads for openal-soft :
http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html