Direct Sound structures

[zemtex]

Howdy. (I am tempted to say, what would assembly be without this forum  :bdg)

I've created a IDirectSound8 interface, set cooperative level and now I am supposed to create a primary and secondary buffer.

My problem is not really a coding problem, but a decision problem. I am stuck at the creation of the primary buffer.

The DSBUFFERDESC and the lpwfxFormat section. I do not really understand what to choose, there are two options (WAVEFORMATEX or WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE)

Which should I choose, do anyone have a template for creating a "normal" variant to play common wave files. It is in my understanding that the C++ library already use templates, I couldnt locate any such templates in the include files. Anyone?

[dedndave]

The WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE structure defines the format of waveform-audio data for formats
having more than two channels or higher sample resolutions than allowed by WAVEFORMATEX.

judging from that, it sounds like the simpler structure would be sufficient in most cases

[japheth]

Here's a sample with WAVEFORMATEX and how to read a .WAV file:

http://www.japheth.de/WinInc/DSound1.html

EDIT: this was post #1000!

[zemtex]

Alright, but now that MS has dropped the hardware layer of directsound3d, i've been thinking about moving towards OpenAL. What is your opinion on that?

[japheth]

Alright, but now that MS has dropped the hardware layer of directsound3d, i've been thinking about moving towards OpenAL. What is your opinion on that?

I have none (yet). However, depending on what you want to achieve you might also consider SDL.