Package: libopenal1 (1:1.23.1-4 and others) [debports]

[ Source:  ]

Software implementation of the OpenAL audio API (shared library)

OpenAL, the Open Audio Library, is a joint effort to create an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform API for interactive, primarily spatialized audio. OpenAL's primary audience are application developers and desktop users that rely on portable standards like OpenGL, for games and other multimedia applications.

This library is meant as a compatible update/replacement to the OpenAL Sample Implementation (the SI). The SI has been unmaintained for quite a while, and would require a lot of work to clean up. This is a fork the old Windows version to attempt an accelerated ALSA version of an OpenAL implementation.

OpenAL Soft supports mono, stereo, 4-channel, 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 output, as opposed to the SI's 4-channel max (though it did have some provisions for 6 channel, this was not 5.1, and was seemingly a "late" addition). OpenAL Soft does not support the Vorbis and MP3 extensions, however those were considered deprecated even in the SI. It does, though, support some of the newer extensions like AL_EXT_FLOAT32 and AL_EXT_MCFORMATS for multi-channel and floating-point formats, as well as ALC_EXT_EFX for environmental audio effects, and others.

This package installs the OpenAL Soft shared library.

Other Packages Related to libopenal1

• dep: libc6 (>= 2.38)

  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

• dep: libgcc-s4 (>= 4.1.1)

  GCC support library

• dep: libopenal-data (= 1:1.23.1-4)

  Software implementation of the OpenAL audio API (data files)

• dep: libsndio7.0 (>= 1.8.1)

  Small audio and MIDI framework from OpenBSD, runtime libraries

• dep: libstdc++6 (>= 14)

  GNU Standard C++ Library v3

• rec: libasound2t64 (>= 1.0.16)

  shared library for ALSA applications
  also a virtual package provided by liboss4-salsa-asound2

• rec: libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1)

  PulseAudio client libraries

• sug: libportaudio2 (>= 19+svn20101113)

  Portable audio I/O - shared library

Download libopenal1

Download for all available architectures

Architecture	Version	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
hppa (unofficial port)	1:1.23.1-4+b1	503.7 kB	1,329.0 kB	[list of files]