exult and sound

[artaxerxes]

I was wondering if it would be easier and possibly more portable to use the SDL_sound package to support sound and music.

More information are found there:
http://icculus.org/SDL_sound/

Artaxerxes

[wjp]

Isn't SDL_Sound for decoding various audio formats?

[fliptw]

I can somewhat understand the easier part.

the portable part makes me scratch my head. All sound data used in exult is already portable(ie not tied to a specific platform).

[artaxerxes]

playing ogg on zaurus will require much more work, and many more libraries.

Artaxerxes

[fliptw]

SDLSound depends on external libraries anyways(No libvorbis, no ogg playing).

Tho, I'd probably use the integer decoder on the zaurus, rather than the FP decoder(Which I assume would be the one that libvorbis uses by default)