README.sound

[This file is mirrored in both the FlightGear and SimGear packages.]

For Sound support FlightGear requires one of the two following packages:
- OpenAL
- AeonWave

== OpenAL ===

You *must* have the development components of OpenAL installed on your system
to build FlightGear!"  You can get a copy here:

      http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/default.aspx

Build notes:

You can download a versioned release of the openal library from
http://www.openal.org/downloads.html. Download the openal source,
release 0.0.8 (dated February 11, 2006) and run:
tar xjvf openal-soft-1.5.304.tar.bz2
cd openal-soft-1.5.304/
ccmake .

[ While running ccmake: press 'c' to configure, press 'c' once more, and
  then press 'g' to generate and exit ]


== AeonWave ===

For FlightGear AeonWave has a number of advantages over OpenAL:
* Correct Doppler effect behavior
* Default distance attenuation frequency filtering
* Native support for 29 types of audio formats.
* Native support for wav, mp3, vorbis and raw file formats.

The source code of AeonWave can be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/adalinbv

Optimized binary packages are available at:
http://www.adalin.com/