[Scummvm-devel] Linux music progress report (with Timidity)

[Lionel Ulmer]

> > Yeah. I wonder why the SDL_mixer guys used a copy of the timidity code
> > internally. Maybe timidity wasn't installed on most machines by default
> > at that time. Or maybe they anted to do some stuff that the timidity
> > interface didn't allow? Seems unlikely: the SDL_mixer interface is
> > really basic.
> 
> The Timidity remote interface is fairly new --- the first I heard of it was 
> when someone mentioned it here. Perhaps SDL_mixer predates it?

I think that SDL_mixer is based on TiMidity 1.xx that is now discontinued by
its original author. I do not know if the author were unaware that other
people had restarted working on TiMidity (named now TiMidity++ and is at
versions 2.10.x (and 2.11.x in beta releases)) or if SDL_mixer predates the
TiMidity revival.

Anyway, I think that the work we do now could be integrated in SDL_mixer (or
even better in SDL) to add MIDI support to SDL. That could then be used to
all the other game 'emulators' (FreeSCI, exult, ...) using MIDI on Linux.

         Lionel (who will have some time this evening to hack :-) )

-- 
		 Lionel Ulmer - http://www.bbrox.org/