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- SDL_mixer 1.2
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- The latest version of this library is available from:
- http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/
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- Due to popular demand, here is a simple multi-channel audio mixer.
- It supports 8 channels of 16 bit stereo audio, plus a single channel
- of music, mixed by the popular MikMod MOD, Timidity MIDI and SMPEG MP3
- libraries.
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- See the header file SDL_mixer.h and the examples playwave.c and playmus.c
- for documentation on this mixer library.
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- The mixer can currently load Microsoft WAVE files and Creative Labs VOC
- files as audio samples, and can load MIDI files via Timidity and the
- following music formats via MikMod: .MOD .S3M .IT .XM. It can load
- Ogg Vorbis streams as music if built with the Ogg Vorbis libraries,
- and finally it can load MP3 music using the SMPEG library.
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- The process of mixing MIDI files to wave output is very CPU intensive,
- so if playing regular WAVE files sound great, but playing MIDI files
- sound choppy, try using 8-bit audio, mono audio, or lower frequencies.
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- To play MIDI files, you'll need to get a complete set of GUS patches
- from:
- http://www.libsdl.org/projects/mixer/timidity/timidity.tar.gz
- and unpack them in /usr/local/lib under UNIX, and C:\ under Win32.
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- This library is available under the GNU Library General Public License,
- see the file "COPYING" for details.
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