[openal] Incorrect Device Names

[Tommy Scott]

I ended up solving this. After changing to ALC_ALL_DEVICES_SPECIFIER all 
was working except I wasn't hearing any sounds playing. It turns out I 
had a line of code for 3D sounds that was setting a strange volume, 
which probably just made the sound so I couldn't hear it. After I fixed 
that all was working.  Thanks for your input.

Tommy

On 9/1/2016 7:48 PM, Chris Robinson wrote:
> On 09/01/2016 08:34 AM, Tommy Scott wrote:
>> When I enumerate all the available devices they all come back with a
>> strDeviceName equal to "OpenAL Soft" instead of the actual device name.
>
> ALC_DEVICE_SPECIFIER effectively acts as a driver specifier. You'll 
> get names like "Generic Software", "Generic Hardware", "OpenAL Soft", 
> etc. You may see specific device names if you have a hardware OpenAL 
> driver for your audio card, though.
>
> Otherwise, you should use the ALC_ENUMERATE_ALL_EXT extension's 
> ALC_ALL_DEVICES_SPECIFIER to get the specific output. Then you'll get 
> names like "OpenAL Soft on Some Device".
>
>> Strangely, if I
>> change the call to ||alcGetString(device, ALC_ALL_DEVICES_SPECIFIER)
>> then it returns thje correct name for the device, but then when using
>> that name to open the device it doesn't allow the device to play sounds.
>
> That's odd, you should be able to open the specific names you get from 
> that. What name do you get? What happens when you try to open a device 
> with the name? Does the device open and the context get created, or 
> does one of them fail, or...?
>
> It may help to get logging output, which you can do by setting the 
> ALSOFT_LOGLEVEL environment variable to 3, then capturing stderr when 
> running the app (or also set the ALSOFT_LOGFILE environment variable 
> to a path with filename, where the log can be written to).
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