Sound Delays :s

[acron^]

A bit of searching has informed me that the GP2X can get temperamental with SDL_Mixer if the audio specs aren't set up properly. Now, this is pedantic but i'm writing a shooting game and currently there's about a 500ms delay between pushing the button and the 'fire' sound playing. This is annoying :s

My current audio specs are:

Mix_OpenAudio(MIX_DEFAULT_FREQUENCY, AUDIO_S16, MIX_DEFAULT_CHANNELS, 256);

I initially tried using SDL_Audio. Man, what a hideous experience.

Anyone got any ideas? :s

 

[Parkydr]

Reduce the buffer size to 128

 

[Guyfawkes]

try changing the 256 in the Mix_OpenAudio call to 128. the setting of 256 should be fine though so maybe there is a problem elsewhere in the code.

 

[acron^]

Hmmm....I swear I'd tried that already!

Oh well Thanks!

Also, bit off topic but will other people need specific SDL libraries on their GP2X (such as SDL_mixer) to run my game? I'm fairly sure i'm linking statically as my .gpe is up to nearly 6mb :s

 

[Guyfawkes]

have you stripped the GPE after its been compiled? from memory its "strip filename.gpe", that should remove the unnecessary stuff from the gpe and reduce the filesize by quite a bit depending on what libs you are using.

if you want to get the filesize even smaller afterwards you can use the gpe compressor, its on the gp2x archive.

 

[acron^]

OK, i'll give that a try, cheers.

But still, will people need the libs I've used?

 

[Guyfawkes]

nah you have static linked them so they are in the gpe.