OpenAL aims to provide a standardized API for something called '3D' sound, just like OpenGL does for '3D' video rendering.
The fun part of OpenAL is that it does all the DSP for you, so you don't need to know a lot about audio. Since OpenAL comes from Creative Labs, it supports hardware rendering of audio with most if not all SoundBlaster audio controllers. They come with chips from EMU-systems and are specifically designed to mix down multichannel audio with DSP effects like reverb and chorus, which could consume a lot CPU speed.
The downside of OpenAL is that (at this time of writing) it is focus on games only. It doesn't do MIDI at all, it doesn't record anything, it doesn't work like a synthesizer. The only thing you can do with OpenAL is play sounds in a simulated 3D environment.
It probably doesn't work on the web.
To use OpenAL you need to read the documentation about OpenAL.
Note concerning audio users: there's no such thing as '3D' audio with speakers. Technically, when people have only two ears, they really can't distinguish sound from above or below, even in front or from behind. To achieve this people merely hear volume, the brightness of sound and the phase difference. One should be able to hear more '3D' sound with only two quality-class speakers than with a consumer class 5.1-set.
CIV. OpenAL Audio Bindings
Wstęp
Platform independent audio bindings. Requires the OpenAL library.
Instalacja
To rozszerzenie PECL nie jest dołączane do PHP.
Dodatkowe informacje, takie jak nowe wersje, pliki do pobrania, pliki źródłowe, informacje o opiekunach czy rejestr zmian, można znaleźć tutaj: http://pecl.php.net/package/openal.
DLL z tym rozszerzeniem PECL można pobrać ze strony PHP Downloads lub http://snaps.php.net/.
Konfiguracja czasu wykonywania
To rozszerzenie nie definiuje posiada żadnych dyrektyw konfiguracyjnych w pliku php.ini.
Typy zasobów
This extension defines four resource types: Open AL(Device) - Returned by openal_device_open(), Open AL(Context) - Returned by openal_context_create(), Open AL(Buffer) - Returned by openal_buffer_create(), and Open AL(Source) - Returned by openal_source_create().
Stałe predefinopwane
Poniższe stałe są zdefiniowane w tym rozszerzeniu i stają się dostępne, gdy rozszerzenie jest dokompilowane do PHP, lub załadowane dynamicznie przy starcie.
- ALC_FREQUENCY (integer)
Context Attribute
- ALC_REFRESH (integer)
Context Attribute
- ALC_SYNC (integer)
Context Attribute
- AL_FREQUENCY (integer)
Buffer Setting
- AL_BITS (integer)
Buffer Setting
- AL_CHANNELS (integer)
Buffer Setting
- AL_SIZE (integer)
Buffer Setting
- AL_BUFFER (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Integer)
- AL_SOURCE_RELATIVE (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Integer)
- AL_SOURCE_STATE (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Integer)
- AL_PITCH (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float)
- AL_GAIN (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float)
- AL_MIN_GAIN (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float)
- AL_MAX_GAIN (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float)
- AL_MAX_DISTANCE (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float)
- AL_ROLLOFF_FACTOR (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float)
- AL_CONE_OUTER_GAIN (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float)
- AL_CONE_INNER_ANGLE (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float)
- AL_CONE_OUTER_ANGLE (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float)
- AL_REFERENCE_DISTANCE (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float)
- AL_POSITION (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float Vector)
- AL_VELOCITY (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float Vector)
- AL_DIRECTION (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float Vector)
- AL_ORIENTATION (integer)
Source/Listener Setting (Float Vector)
- AL_FORMAT_MONO8 (integer)
PCM Format
- AL_FORMAT_MONO16 (integer)
PCM Format
- AL_FORMAT_STEREO8 (integer)
PCM Format
- AL_FORMAT_STEREO16 (integer)
PCM Format
- AL_INITIAL (integer)
Source State
- AL_PLAYING (integer)
Source State
- AL_PAUSED (integer)
Source State
- AL_STOPPED (integer)
Source State
- AL_LOOPING (integer)
Source State
- AL_TRUE (integer)
Boolean value recognized by OpenAL
- AL_FALSE (integer)
Boolean value recognized by OpenAL
- Spis treści
- openal_buffer_create -- Generate OpenAL buffer
- openal_buffer_data -- Load a buffer with data
- openal_buffer_destroy -- Destroys an OpenAL buffer
- openal_buffer_get -- Retrieve an OpenAL buffer property
- openal_buffer_loadwav -- Load a .wav file into a buffer
- openal_context_create -- Create an audio processing context
- openal_context_current -- Make the specified context current
- openal_context_destroy -- Destroys a context
- openal_context_process -- Process the specified context
- openal_context_suspend -- Suspend the specified context
- openal_device_close -- Close an OpenAL device
- openal_device_open -- Initialize the OpenAL audio layer
- openal_listener_get -- Retrieve a listener property
- openal_listener_set -- Set a listener property
- openal_source_create -- Generate a source resource
- openal_source_destroy -- Destroy a source resource
- openal_source_get -- Retrieve an OpenAL source property
- openal_source_pause -- Pause the source
- openal_source_play -- Start playing the source
- openal_source_rewind -- Rewind the source
- openal_source_set -- Set source property
- openal_source_stop -- Stop playing the source
- openal_stream -- Begin streaming on a source
I made a PHP-Gtk2 OpenAL demo which allows you to define as many sound sources as you like and position them relative to the listener by drag and drop: http://gnope.org/p/Tools_OpenALdemo
Playing a wav file:
<?php
function printok($b) {
echo $b ? " ok\n" : " error\n";
}
echo "Opening device";
$device = openal_device_open();
printok($device);
echo "Creating context";
$context = openal_context_create($device);
printok($context);
echo "Making context the current";
printok(openal_context_current($context));
//where we are
//echo "Setting listener position";
//printok(openal_listener_set(AL_POSITION, array(0, 0, 0)));
//echo "Setting listener orientation";
//printok(openal_listener_set(AL_ORIENTATION, array(0=>0,1 => 1, 2=>0, 3=> 0, 4=>4, 5=>5)));
echo "Creating buffer";
$buffer = openal_buffer_create();
echo "Loading wav";
printok(openal_buffer_loadwav($buffer, '/data/shared/vmware/newmessage.wav'));
echo "buffer stats\n";
echo " Frequency: " . openal_buffer_get($buffer, AL_FREQUENCY) . "\n";
echo " Bits : " . openal_buffer_get($buffer, AL_BITS) . "\n";
echo " Channels : " . openal_buffer_get($buffer, AL_CHANNELS) . "\n";
echo " Size : " . openal_buffer_get($buffer, AL_SIZE) . "\n";
echo "Creating source";
$source = openal_source_create();
echo "Setting source buffer";
printok(openal_source_set($source, AL_BUFFER, $buffer));
//echo "Setting source position";
//printok(openal_source_set($source, AL_POSITION, array(1, 0, 0)));
echo "Playing source";
printok(openal_source_play($source));
echo "sleeping\n";
//sleep(1);
//we wait 300msecs beause the sound
// has no time to be played otherwise
//since playing sound is done concurrently
// to the script
usleep(300000);
echo "Destroying source";
printok(openal_source_destroy($source));
echo "Destroying buffer";
printok(openal_buffer_destroy($buffer));
echo "Destroying context";
printok(openal_context_destroy($context));
echo "Closing device";
printok(openal_device_close($device));
?>
