Re: Front and Rear sound is same

Hi, Thanks for the reply.
I use a 32 bit system with windows xp
And I printed the device from device specifier and it says "Generic
Hardware"
Then I tried checking if there is 5.1 support by checking the
al.alGetEnumValue("AL_FORMAT_51CHN16")
which returns a non zero value (4619 to be exact)
I have a bad feeling that the JavaOpenAL implementation is incomplete. When
I checked the AL class it had constants only for the 8,16 bit of stereo and
mono values
al.AL_FORMAT_MONO16 and other 3. No 51 channel thing. but it did not return
0 when checked.
Is there any way to get the openal soft to work with java. And keep my
current code as well.
Thanks.

On 16 March 2011 07:04, Chris Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:23:28 AM Kanishka Weerasekara wrote:
> > I currently use a creative audigy sound card, which is supposed to have
> > native support for openAL. The Front and the rear speakers play the same
> > sound (just duplicates the front I feel), but the left right channels are
> > accurate. I am using openAL through a java wrapper. JOAL.
>
> Sounds like it may be using the Generic Software device. What device is
> opened? Calling alcGetString with ALC_DEVICE_SPECIFIER on the opened device
> handle should say.
>
> Also, are you using 32-bit or 64-bit Java? IIRC, the hardware OpenAL
> drivers
> only work on 32-bit, and 64-bit will only work through DSound/WinMM.
>
> In that case, you could use my OpenAL Soft to get surround sound mixing.
> Unfortunately I haven't built a 64-bit DLL yet, so you or someone else
> would
> need to build it. There is an automated build here:
> https://www.newdawnsoftware.com/hudson/view/OpenAL/job/OpenAL-win64/
> however this is not done by me, and seems to be built with MinSizeRel
> instead
> of a fully-optimized Release build. Still, if you have 64-bit, it may be
> good
> enough.
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