Re: Detecting if stream is finished playing

On Saturday, August 07, 2010 6:53:50 am Nameless wrote:
> Hello, I came with one problem I can't get over, I tried Googling the
> stuff, but there's no useful answer. Thing is, I need to detect if source
> is finished playing. Messing around AL_SOURCE_STATE didn't help either. I
> need this, because I can free memory only after source is finished
> playing, and I need to do it every frame. So my question is, if there's
> some function/way how to detect it?

Hi.

The AL_SOURCE_STATE property should do what you want. Does something like this 
not work?

bool SourceIsPlaying(ALuint source)
{
    ALint state;

    alGetSourcei(source, AL_SOURCE_STATE, &state);
    assert(alGetError() == AL_NO_ERROR);

    return (state == AL_PLAYING);
}
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