[maemo-developers] Maemo 5 - Playing sounds from Qt

[From: Tim Teulings]

Hello!

> I tried using libcanberra, and my example works on the desktop, but when
I
> move it to Scratchbox, I get a CA_ERROR_NOTAVAILABLE when I call
> ca_context_play().
[...]
> Should I be doing something different?  Is there a better API?  What do
> linux game developers usually use for playing short sounds?  Can anybody
> provide any examples?

AFAIK, libcanberra is mainly for triggering playing system sounds (from
some system sound theme),
like in "play the sound the OS defiens to be played when I pressing a
button".

For playing any sound (and much more :-)) you can use the gstreamer API.

take a look at:

http://maemo.org/development/sdks/maemo_5_api_documentation/

Section Multimedia APIs

-- 
Gruß...
    Tim