[SDL] SDL_mixer vs. raw way

[Ryan C. Gordon]

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 19:56, Coleman Nitroy wrote:
> I am using OpenAL for the envirnmental audio for my project and I want 
> to add music, SDL_mixer looks to be really easy to implement but I was 
> wondering if I would have any conflicts since I am using OpenAL already 
> for the sound effects and such? What would anyone recommend, using 
> SDL_mixer or straight raw ogg/vorbis stuff with OpenAL?

I wouldn't recommend mixing the two.

Might be interesting to write and SDL audio target that just uses AL's
buffer queueing on an existing context, though, so you could, more or
less, prevent conflicts between the two packages.

--ryan.