[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Introduction and Patch Approval Process

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:24:46PM +0200, col@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote ..
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:23:12AM +0200, col@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes, I think so. One question: One person said that there would be 
> > > someone who
> > has worked on a sound patch before but noone gave me an e-mail so I can 
> > work with
> > him together... Could someone tell me more about some details of having 
> > sound in
> > freeciv ( I am not very long on this list) so that I can improve my system ?
> > 
> > See the FAQ entry on sound for the whole discussion.
> 

> I have taken a little look so far and I think the whole thing is a
> little bit controversial ( is that spelled right ?) up to now. It
> seems for me as if the whole thing died because the last entry came
> from Nov 2000 and that's nearly a year and still no sound in 1.12
> (please correct me if I am wrong). The most ideas I have seen were
> ahem... I think that the most developpers thought not easy enough as
> getting sound output is the easiest thing to integrate due having
> such programs as "play" which is nearly available for every
> platform. Giving out sound must be an own thread so in fact using
> "play &" as an command output is the best way because we don't have
> to mind all the various sound modules and other things. "play" is
> also good tested and used by many other programs (like
> licq). Someone thought about a mixer but I think that the sound
> drivers all bring a mixer with them. I think that the background
> music must not / need not to be a thing which is provided by freeciv
> because I!
> 
> think that every collection of MP3s is better than the scum we would
> provide. The only thing we could do would be some "introducing"
> waves which could be played as "event-sound" which have some short
> melodies...
> 
> So it'll be maybe better to deliver a XMMS-control plugin for
> freeciv than creating a MP3 player.
> 
> One comment about stability: There is no reason for my patch to be
> unstable because in fact we don't have to do more than giving the
> right file to "play".
> 
> So my meaning about the whole thing is, that sound output is easy
> enough to be written in one night - that's all.

Still open is the question of what sound has to be played when?

> PS: Someone concerning about using "play" ?

No. There may systems which doesn't have a "play" command. But these
systems will have another command to play waves.

        Raimar

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