Native Development

[flynnman]

I am trying to get the mmr audio library to play some mp3 files

but it keeps crashing 

The code is indentical to the sample on

https://developer.blackberry.com/native/documentation/recipe_play_audio_1935324_11.html

(and elsewhere in the documentation)

initially if I call

mmr_output_parameters(m_ctxt, audio_oid, NULL);

it crashes in strm_dict_key_get()

If I comment out that line it crashes in mmr_play() (sigsegv)

I am calling bps_initalize() elsewhere 

I have enabled sound in the bar-descriptor.xml

Is there anything else that needs to be initialized?  Has anybody else gotten this to work?

Kind of related is it possible / supported to play multiple sounds at the same time using mmr?

The documentation is not clear on this.

I am attempting to use mmr and not OpenAL since I want to play MP3 but see the related psot I am about to make

[mgoulet]

Hi there,

I see you've posted this some time ago; have you made any progress on this front?

Let mew know and I will try to reprocude the issue;

Thanks!

Martin

[flynnman · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the response I did post an update but i must have made it to the wrong post.

(see my related post)

It turns out the reason it was crashing was a stupid error on my part

once I fixed that it stopped crashing

After plenty of trial and error I got it to work.

I am also able to play multiple mp3 files at any given time.

I think I will use a hybrid model though, .wav files for the sound effects and .mp3 files for the backing track.  I am finding the mp3 files do not seem to be as spunky was the wav file and they just seem off timing wise sometimes.

I am also a little surpised that mmr_stop() is so expensive, it caused glitches in my game, but I moved it to a different thread and all seems fine.

[mgoulet]

I'm glad you got it to work.

Using separate threads for such operations is a good idea. If you run into additional problems or find solutions from which others could benefit post away!

Cheers,

Martin

[thadude3]

where is the related post? or better yet what was the error? I am seeing this also and it just started happening. used to work fine.