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

David,

Thanks for your reply!

On 8/11/07, David J. Goehrig <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

I noticed that method, but it always returned an empty string -- do
you have any more details on how i can enable that method?

> 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.

Not having audio is okay as this is just for fun...

-Brian