by Chris » Sun Oct 14, 2018 3:24 pm
Caligari87 wrote:It looks like the latest version available in my repositories is OpenAL 1.18.2. After some quick searching, everything Ubuntu-based seems stuck on this version. I'm trying to find a PPA (without luck so far) as I'm not quite comfortable installing it from source, at least not yet.
It might take a little bit to reach down-stream, but there is a new version on the way which should indicate if it's still a problem or not.
For what it's worth, this only happens if if force HRTF "On". I still get the HRTF effect (proper fading for sounds behind me) if I use "Auto", without the fluttery effect. Is there something done different between those settings?
From the video you posted, it sounds like Off and Auto are the same, i.e. Auto is plain stereo. With Auto, HRTF is enabled if it's able to detect the output is headphones; PulseAudio indicates that by the port name being "analog-output-headphones" (and with WASAPI/DirectSound, that's determined by the device having a Headphones or Headset formfactor) with 2-channel output. Other backends don't have a way to specify this information, so it assumes speakers.
[quote="Caligari87"]It looks like the latest version available in my repositories is OpenAL 1.18.2. After some quick searching, everything Ubuntu-based seems stuck on this version. I'm trying to find a PPA (without luck so far) as I'm not quite comfortable installing it from source, at least not yet.[/quote]
It might take a little bit to reach down-stream, but there is a new version on the way which should indicate if it's still a problem or not.
[quote]For what it's worth, this only happens if if force HRTF "On". I still get the HRTF effect (proper fading for sounds behind me) if I use "Auto", without the fluttery effect. Is there something done different between those settings?[/quote]
From the video you posted, it sounds like Off and Auto are the same, i.e. Auto is plain stereo. With Auto, HRTF is enabled if it's able to detect the output is headphones; PulseAudio indicates that by the port name being "analog-output-headphones" (and with WASAPI/DirectSound, that's determined by the device having a Headphones or Headset formfactor) with 2-channel output. Other backends don't have a way to specify this information, so it assumes speakers.