[SDL] SDL_Mixer or possibly SDL_Sound question...

Sam Lantinga slouken at devolution.com
Fri Jun 14 18:12:00 PDT 2002


> Hi all,
>    Another proxy question...

> Does SDL_Mixer offer equivalent HAL access to the facilities that I 
> currently know as DirectSound Secondary buffers in windows? The 
> busmastered sound playback by the soundcard with sample accurate looping 
> & virtually no CPU overhead.

No, not at the moment.  It's something we're considering for SDL 2.0.
However, the CPU utilization of SDL_mixer is very low.

See ya,
	-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment




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