What formats can OpenAL play, other than wav?
If there arent any other or they dont have good compression how can I load other files and play them with OpenAL?
thanks

unknown Wrote:What formats can OpenAL play, other than wav?

Just look at the documentation on http://www.openal.org

Oh thanks I hadn't found that yet.

OpenAL doesn't know anything about file formats any more than OpenGL does. It accepts uncompressed audio data in a bunch of formats. It's up to you to load the file, decompress it, and send it to AL, just as is the case with textures in OpenGL.

alutLoadWAVFile is not a part of AL proper, and is gone in OpenAL 1.1.

Right Im going to have to get ogg vorbis to work then
Ill be doing that tommorow though...
And once its done ill post it on the wiki

this works great for me. In five-ten minutes I had everything setup and working perfectly, the only thing I changed was using SDL for endian checking.

Yes!!!!!
Endian, OMG, thats why it was loading instantly and giving me random noise!
All is not lost, my soul returns.
thank you lightbringer, time to implement this into my game before sleep...

There is an extension that allows you to play ogg streams without decompressing them. Information here.

You just read the ogg file directly into memory and create a buffer out of it. Very simple.