[Kde-games-devel] Junior job not only for GSoCers: Low-latency sound playback with KgSound

[Roney Gomes]

>> On 03/18/2012 01:50 AM, Ian Wadham wrote:
> At a very quick glance, the code looks OK, so maybe it is something missing in your environment.  You need:
>     - Hardware/OS sound turned on,
>     - Sound setting on in Kapman Settings menu,
>     - OpenAL library installed,
>     - LibSndFile library installed,
>     - Sound files installed in your $KDEDIR area (Is KStandardDirs::locate finding any files?),
>     - Any other "obvious" things.
>
> If you do not have both libraries, I think KgSound will default to Phonon, which might or might not play OK.
>
> If all the above things seem OK, try making the problem smaller, e.g. have a few lines of code that just play
> *one* sound, such as bonus.ogg, at a moment of your choosing.  Oh, and did the game play sounds before
> you started to change the code?
>
> Happy hunting!

Yay, I solved the problem. :D

There are no bugs in the code, everything is fine. It is my environment 
that is not properly configured.

In the calls to KgSound's constructor instead of passing 
"sounds/foo.ogg" as argument, I passed the entire path to the file and 
everything is working.

I guess there is something wrong with my $KDEDIR variable, I tried to 
set some values to it but they haven't worked. How do I fix it?

Thanks for your help Ian, it has been of much value to me. :)