Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

["Christian Morales Vega" <cmorve69@xxxxxxxx>]

The SDL API doesn't allows the developer to select the audio device.
It just does:
#define DEFAULT_DEVICE  "default"
...
static const char *get_audio_device(int channels)
{
        const char *device;
        
        device = SDL_getenv("AUDIODEV");        /* Is there a standard variable 
name? */
        if ( device == NULL ) {
                if (channels == 6) device = "surround51";
                else if (channels == 4) device = "surround40";
                else device = DEFAULT_DEVICE;
        }
        return device;
}

I don't understand the motives (someone here does?), but setting
AUDIODEV to "hw" works better than "default" in some cases (sometimes
default works better?).
All the info about the problem I found is
http://mednafen.sourceforge.net/documentation/#using-cli , that says:
"This is necessary because ALSA's "default" audio device has very poor
buffering control capabilities."

I just found again the problem with GuitarFun (
http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_-JUEGO--Guitarfun-PC-2-0--homebrew-_948414
). But I remember having the same problem in the past with other
software.

So, should SDL be patched to '#define DEFAULT_DEVICE    "hw"'?
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