does OpenAL only work with caff format audio files

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I am making a game with sound effects and am using open al and using a .wav format audio file, but this does no play any sound.Does open al on iOS only allow caff files to be run and if so how can i convert wav audio files to caff?

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youtube.com/watch?v=qGpVlgy0PXM video helps you easy in converting to caff on mac. – Avis
Thanks a lot, very helpful – AppCoder123

2 Answers

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If you are using OpenAL on iOS without any wrappers, it will only accept caff and wav as input. Also, you can check out this thread: Converting audio to CAF format for playback on iPhone using OpenAL

But be careful, since OpenAl on iOs will not take ima4 compressed files directly as input!

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OpenAL like many audio rendering API's like Web Audio API require PCM audio as its only input format --- any WAV,mp3 will need to be parsed upstream and fed into as audio buffer(s) of PCM audio