On 15 June 2010 07:44, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Op 2010-06-14 15:37, Graeme Geldenhuys het geskryf: >> >> Has anybody managed to play sound files under both Linux and Windows? > > Thanks for everybody's responses. I'll work my way through all of them > today. Now I understand all the comments on the net about the state of > audio (and gaming) on Linux. It's a damn mess with 1000's of options and > each one in a different state of development or functionality.
You'll probably find that there's 1000's of sound libraries for windows, too. There are different concepts here: sound architecture in the kernel (alsa, oss (deprecated)), sound daemons (pulseaudio, jack, arts, esd), file format reading/writing and decoding of codecs (mp3, ogg, etc). On top of these you get the libraries that try and make this cross platform. You can do _very_ cool things with audio on linux. I've got a friend that runs a recording studio on ubuntu :) Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
