From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Animation+sound in Allegro
Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 1997 09:28:54 +0100
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Marián Dvorský writes:
>How can I play any animation file (for Intro etc.) with sound
>(for effects, speech) ? (AVI, MPG, or what can I USE????)
>Must I create one BIG wav file length of FLI file and run it before
>start FLI? Or how?

There's no direct way of doing this at the moment: Allegro doesn't
support any of the animation formats that include audio streams, and
such a huge sample is going to cause problems both with overflowing
counter sizes and the timing getting out of sync with the animation. The
best bodge approach would be to use a seperate sample for each sound
effect and phrase of your speech, and use the FLI player callback
function to trigger them on the appropriate frames...

>Shawn, can u create a new file (ie. FLS), what will the same as
>FLx but somewhere can be WAV files ? Something like SMACKER?
>U can create tool to add this wav files to FLx. What do u think?

I'n not keen on creating new file formats without a _very_ good reason
for it! IMHO it would be better to write an AVI player, but I can't see
myself having time to do that in the near future. Any takers?


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