1. Audio DLLs
- Posted by Lone_EverGreen_Ranger Feb 24, 2010
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Hello,
Does anybody know of any audio or sound DLLs found on the windows OS itself. I was thinking of writing a wrapper or library with the base audio system or something like that. I know GDI is for graphics routines, but which one is for audio routines?
2. Re: Audio DLLs
- Posted by m_sabal Feb 25, 2010
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Because of all the hullabaloo surrounding DRM, Microsoft keeps making major changes to their audio APIs in every new version of Windows. For Vista and Windows7, you may want to look here (Core Audio APIs). For XP and earlier, winmm.dll is where most of what you want is located. These functions are not so well documented at Microsoft any longer, so you may need to search other sites for help. Searching on PlaySoundA will probably get you close. IIRC, there should be some multimedia libraries for Windows and SDL (I think) in the archives.
3. Re: Audio DLLs
- Posted by Lone_EverGreen_Ranger Feb 25, 2010
- 1217 views
Because of all the hullabaloo surrounding DRM, Microsoft keeps making major changes to their audio APIs in every new version of Windows. For Vista and Windows7, you may want to look here (Core Audio APIs). For XP and earlier, winmm.dll is where most of what you want is located. These functions are not so well documented at Microsoft any longer, so you may need to search other sites for help. Searching on PlaySoundA will probably get you close. IIRC, there should be some multimedia libraries for Windows and SDL (I think) in the archives.
Yes, I was thinking of using SDL mixer for audio play. Which is probably the best way to go.
