Re: Front and Rear sound is same

Hi,
My sound card is a audigy value card and I am afraid it falls to generic
hardware. But Its ok as long as the 3D sounds are generated (with front and
rear.)
Yes I checked with the playmultichannel example and it *works fine* (speaks
out front left  to rear right, if that's what is expected, and it requests
me to select between generic hardware and software.)
I attached a sample i used to identify this problem. static float[]
sourcePos = {0.0f, 3.0f, 0.0f};
I hope 3.0f as the second array element should give sound from the rear
speakers. but it does not change if it's 3.0f or -3.0f ro 0.0f.
I added my AL settings by going through the tool they have provided.
I will use the openAL soft and try again.
Thanks


On 16 March 2011 10:27, Chris Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:50:55 AM Kanishka Weerasekara wrote:
> > 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)
>
> Odd. I'd expect proper 3D sound if you have Generic Hardware, particularly
> if
> it's allowing 5.1 buffers. Can you test a 5.1 buffer? The OpenAL SDK has a
> PlayMultiChannel sample that can test it.
>
> I don't know why it would be picking Generic Hardware over a native OpenAL
> hardware driver either, though.
>
> > 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.
>
> AL_FORMAT_51CHN16 is only in an extension, at the moment. The
> 8/16/mono/stereo
> enums are standard. Plus, you need to call alGetEnumValue() with the string
> to
> make sure it's supported, anyway.
>
> > Is there any way to get the openal soft to work with java. And keep my
> > current code as well.
>
> All you should have to do is place OpenAL Soft's DLL next to the app or in
> system32. If you leave it named soft_oal.dll, the router should pick it up
> and
> show it as additional enumerated devices (which an app should let you
> select,
> somehow). Or you can rename it to OpenAL32.dll, and it will replace all
> other
> implementations on the system. All OpenAL apps should work with it, unless
> it
> requires an extension that's not present (eg, EAX, EAX-RAM).
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System Information
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                  Report Time: 2011/3/17 7:23:45
                           OS: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
                         BIOS: INTEL  - 1072009 BIOS Date: 09/23/09 11:58:43 Ver: 08.00.10 
                    Processor: ~3192MHz Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         650  @ 3.20GHz
                       Memory: 1 GB
    Default Audio Device Name: Sound Blaster Audigy
        Audio Driver Filename: P17.sys
    Audio Driver File Version: 5.12.1.512
 Audio Driver Product Version: 5.12.1.512
         ALCapsViewer Version: 1.0.3.0

-----------------
OpenAL Components
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Name            Path                    Version        
OpenAL32.dll    C:\WINDOWS\system32\    6.14.357.24    
wrap_oal.dll    C:\WINDOWS\system32\    2.2.0.5        

--------------
OpenAL Devices
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                   Name: Generic Hardware
          Sample Offset: Yes
  Linear Distance Model: Yes
Exponent Distance Model: Yes
                Capture: Yes
            Enumeration: Yes
                EAX 2.0: Yes
                EAX 3.0: Yes
                EAX 4.0: No
                EAX 5.0: No
                  X-RAM: No
          Enumerate All: Yes
                EFX 1.0: Yes

                   Name: Generic Software
          Sample Offset: Yes
  Linear Distance Model: Yes
Exponent Distance Model: Yes
                Capture: Yes
            Enumeration: Yes
                EAX 2.0: Yes
                EAX 3.0: No
                EAX 4.0: No
                EAX 5.0: No
                  X-RAM: No
          Enumerate All: Yes
                EFX 1.0: Yes