frosch wrote:

I have the impression that you are trying to play a sound continuously by starting it over and over and giving it the duration until it is started next.

I don't think that is the right solution to the problem. Instead there should be a way to enable looped playback, which makes a sound play repeatedly until the GRF says something else. The "something else" part could also only take affect when the sound finished the next time, so it is not interrupted and the next sound effect is appended smoothly.

Making the GRF try to figure out when a sound might be finished to start a new one will easily break if something in OTTD is delayed.

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Pikka wrote:

I have no problem with delays, I'm not trying to get perfect looping. But the pattern in the irregularity is striking; it makes me think there's a counter that's not quite working properly.

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Pikka wrote:

lllsllsllsllslls is 16 "events" long, so it seems the pattern repeats every 256 ticks. So what's creating this pattern? Something in the sound playback thread? And is it the same pattern for everyone, on every computer?

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frosch wrote:

This is for sure platform specific. Assuming you are using windows, the interval between ticks is controlled by GetTickCount().

The msdn documentation at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724408%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
says: "The resolution of the GetTickCount function is limited to the resolution of the system timer, which is typically in the range of 10 milliseconds to 16 milliseconds."

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andythenorth closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't implement

Flyspray clean up: more than 5 years old, and not obvious what should be done with this next, so closing. If this offends, discuss with andythenorth in irc. Thanks. Also hi Pikka.

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