[Scummvm-devel] Streaming sounds in Scumm games

[Johannes Schickel]

Filippos Karapetis wrote:
>
> As for the sound code in SAGA: I've written it to load samples in 
> memory, as it simplified the overall code in that part, as the SAGA 
> engine has to deal with a variety of different encodings (PCM, VOC, 
> VOX, WAV, VOC, AIFF and Shorten). The whole sound effect/speech code 
> in SAGA should be changed to play samples from disk directly, rather 
> than loading them in memory, but I believe that this is not possible 
> for VOC, WAV and AIFF files with the current common code.

No it isn't possible yet. But after all that's what we're talking about, 
adding possibility to stream VOC (and WAV(E) + AIFF files). :-)

// Johannes