[Gambas-user] Playing Midi files

[daniel]

Why not using WAVs or MP3 instead of midi?

It is true midi is a problem in Linux, but, for a game, you can use
pure sounds instead of midi, I think it is not a problem for yor game...

Regards,

Daniel Campos


> 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,
> 
> 
> 
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