Re: $surface->pixel is slow + audio data chunks

Brian Cassidy wrote:
> The data format is very much like an ANSI file where there's a
> background color then a char on top of in another color. each
> character in an 8x8 block needs to be checked against the bit mask of
> the font to see if it writes a fg color to the screen or not.
>   
It may require modifications to the version of SDL_Perl that you're 
running but SDL::Surface->pixels can be made to return a string of 
binary image data.  You can then apply unpack on it, and run it through 
map, or a regular expression, etc.
> My other question is that I can't for the life of me figure out how to
> play the audio frame portion ($abuffer in the program) -- is it even
> possible to play raw audio from a variable with SDL_Perl?
>   
Yeah it is possible to play PCM data.  But it is platform dependent.  
Some threading issues occur on platform that run audio in a separate 
thread.  The audio callback code, however, can be a pain to work with in 
Perl, because of re-entrancy issues even on a suitable platform.  
Currently, the box I'm on doesn't like the audio code, and I haven't 
played with it in over a year.

Dave