[gst-devel] gstreamer in a game

[Laurent Belmonte]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 16:49, in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> I think this is certainly possible. Though it probably requires a bit of 
> hacking to get all the elements working as expected.
> 
> I'm actually writing on a gaming lib for sprite based games (It should work for 
> Tetris, Pacman and Bomberman as those are the ones I want - though I think even 
> Super Mario, Breakout or R-Type style games should be possible.) myself as a 
> side project and am determined to use GStreamer whenever I get around adding 
> sound.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> But if yoou were willing to spend some time on getting the missing 
> infrastructure pieces put together, that would be great.
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> 
> 
I am not an gstreamer expert, so i dont know what is missing to do
things like this. Something is missing in gstreamer to do this ?


> Quoting laurent belmonte <laurent.belmonte at aliacom.fr>:
> 
> > hi,
> > 
> > I am working on a game named monkey-bubble
> > (http://monkey-bubble.tuxfamily.org). I want to use gstreamer for the
> > sound effects and for the music. Someone have an idea how to use
> > gstreamer to do this :
> > play one to six samples in the same time ( same or different samples)
> > 
> > multiplefilesrc | queue |__
> > 	  		     \
> > multiplefilesrc | queue |__ \_
> >                            \__ 
> > multiplefilesrc | queue |_____  mixer --> oss
> >                             __
> > multiplefilesrc | queue |__/ _
> >                             /
> > multiplefilesrc | queue |__/
> > 
> > 
> > is it feasable ?
> >
>