help: Crossplattform audio functionality in Python

Paul Winkler slinkp23 at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 11 15:58:20 EDT 2001


On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:48:34 GMT, Olov Johansson
<olov_johansson_not_for_sale at mail.ru> wrote:

>Both these libraries would suit my needs (libao would be the easiest to use
>because the python stuff is already written afaik), but in the longer term..
>The Python core needs (imho) a builtin soundsystem which works on all
>platforms.

I agree. It's scattered across various modules - e.g. al for SGI,
sunaudiodev for Sun, and they have different interfaces.

Another option, though no python bindings exist yet: Portaudio,
see http://www.portaudio.com

--PW



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