al_create_sample(3)

NAME

al_create_sample - Allegro 5 API

SYNOPSIS

    #include <allegro5/allegro_audio.h>
    ALLEGRO_SAMPLE *al_create_sample(void *buf, unsigned int samples,
       unsigned int freq, ALLEGRO_AUDIO_DEPTH depth,
       ALLEGRO_CHANNEL_CONF chan_conf, bool free_buf)

DESCRIPTION

Create a sample data structure from the supplied buffer. If free_buf is true then the buffer will be freed with al_free(3) when the sample data structure is destroyed. For portability (especially Windows), the buffer should have been allocated with al_malloc(3). Otherwise you should free the sample data yourself.

A sample that is referred to by the samples parameter refers to a sequence channel intensities. E.g. if you're making a stereo sample with the samples set to 4, then the layout of the data in buf will be:

    LRLRLRLR

Where L and R are the intensities for the left and right channels respectively. A single sample, then, refers to the LR pair in this example.

To allocate a buffer of the correct size, you can use something like this:

    int sample_size = al_get_channel_count(chan_conf)
                      * al_get_audio_depth_size(depth);
    int bytes = samples * sample_size;
    void *buffer = al_malloc(bytes);

SEE ALSO

al_destroy_sample(3), ALLEGRO_AUDIO_DEPTH(3), ALLEGRO_CHANNEL_CONF(3)