23 Sep
2003
23 Sep
'03
7:01 a.m.
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04.12, Thomas Webb wrote:
[...]
SDL is cool. I like it, but I mostly just use it for
games because as far as sound goes, it's very basic.
It kinda uses the "lest common denominator" approach
for cross-platform capability. Last time I used it for
audio, It only supported 8-bit sound, and I don't
think that's changed since then.
It changed long before 1.2, AFAIK. For as long as I've been using SDL
(before 1.2 was released), it has supported various 8 and 16 bit
formats, in mono and stereo.
However, that's about as far as it goes. It's output only, and there's
no MIDI support. (SDL_mixer can play MIDI files, though, but on some
platforms it supports only rendering to audio through Timidity, and
there's no low level MIDI I/O API.)
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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