[Gambas-user] Playing Midi files

[Ken Schrock]

One way would be to just use playmidi which is included with most distros

SHELL "playmidi somesong.mid"

However, midi is often not available in Linux because
A. Some of the real cheap built-in sound cards don't do midi
B. There seems to be a lot of alsa drivers that don't support midi

So a more reliable way is to use timidity, which does it in software
And is always avalable to the program if the user has a sound card

The disadvantages to this method are
A. you have to make timidity a dependency of your app
B. Timidity sucks a lot of CPU, which may be a problem in a game

On Friday 05 December 2003 11:14 am, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On Thursday 04 December 2003 10:02, Devilyn wrote:
> > Been waiting! Any progress with on playing MIDI files? Using SDL
> > component? Need this for RPG game.
> >  Devilyn
>
> Mmmm... SDL has nothing to do with playing Midi file. I think you must
> lauch an external program to do that. I don't have much information about
> how to do that...
>
> Regards,