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DarkBASIC Discussion / Music Loop Problem

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Peregrin
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Greetings, all.
I've designed a very simple 3D labyrinth game, with a background music: I've therefore included the instructions "load music" and "loop music" before my main program loop.
The game runs fine at fps 25 until the music ends for the first time. Then 1. it doesn't play again and 2. the fps rate crashes down to 8 and my game gets all shaky.
What would be the source of this problem ?
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Emperor Baal
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Posted: 14th Mar 2004 21:11
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I had this problem to with Night Forest Hunter. You are using a MIDI right? (I think so)

Try using a wav/mp3 or use a timer to play/stop the midi.

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Peregrin
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DBC can play mp3 ?! Gee, that's swell ! ^_^
Thanx, Baal !
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Code Ninja
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Posted: 15th Mar 2004 20:27
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DBC... MP3? How!

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Peregrin
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Still, it doesn't tell me why this is happening...
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Van B
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Posted: 16th Mar 2004 14:31
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Code Ninja,
DBC has always been able to play .mp3 - my very first DB project was an mp3 player . Just load it in and play it, could'nt be simpler.

Peregrin,
Midi music is both the lowest quality, and strangely one of the most complicated. It could be that DB is getting confused at the end of the file, a midi signal is sorta messy you see - all control codes and data - we don't have a lot of control over them, the guys who compose midi files don't even have a lot of control over them!.

I would suggest using a .mod or .it music file, from a soundtracker like Modplugs - they're small, and sound much better than midi files. DB will load and play soundtracker files better than .mid.


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Code Ninja
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Posted: 17th Mar 2004 20:58 Edited at: 17th Mar 2004 20:58
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oh... ... y'see they don't even say that in the help files. they only mention midi's. thanx, Van B

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Emperor Baal
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Uhm, Darkbasic has more secrets than mentioned



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oh... cool ... thnx

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Direct Draw Surfaces??/ Woohoo!

I thought all the custom paint I did with trueSpace3 would go to waste!

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