[gst-devel] gstreamer in a game

[Leif Johnson]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de wrote:

> Quoting laurent belmonte <laurent.belmonte at aliacom.fr>:
>
> > multiplefilesrc | queue |__
> > 	  		     \
> > multiplefilesrc | queue |__ \_
> >                            \__
> > multiplefilesrc | queue |_____  mixer --> oss
> >                             __
> > multiplefilesrc | queue |__/ _
> >                             /
> > multiplefilesrc | queue |__/

> Your idea is pretty much like I'd use it, too:
> - Have some pipeline parts on the left that provide sounds (or even
>   music) as needed or "no sound" else.
> - Have one big mixer/adder element, that mixes all those sounds
>   together and connect that to an output.

With a minimal API surrounding the pipeline, this starts to look a lot
like a sound server to me.

> I'd probably preload samples into some buffer via a pipeline and then
> use a source element that reads from memory instead of decoding the
> stuff every time. Though all of that would need to be written.

Shameless self-promotion : Check out the playondemand element. Might not
be exactly what you want, but it's there ...

leif

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