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OPENAL


EFFICIENT

OpenAL renders 3D sound quickly. Your buffer will be perfectly filled.


SIMPLE

Ever written OpenGL code? You already know how to work with OpenAL.


OPEN API

Remember EAX and A3D? Forget them. OpenAL is vendor neutral.


WHAT IS OPENAL?


OpenAL is a cross-platform 3D audio API appropriate for use with gaming
applications and many other types of audio applications.

The library models a collection of audio sources moving in a 3D space that are
heard by a single listener somewhere in that space. The basic OpenAL objects are
a Listener, a Source, and a Buffer. There can be a large number of Buffers,
which contain audio data. Each buffer can be attached to one or more Sources,
which represent points in 3D space which are emitting audio. There is always one
Listener object (per audio context), which represents the position where the
sources are heard -- rendering is done from the perspective of the Listener.

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