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OpenAL VS PortAudio

Compare OpenAL VS PortAudio and see what are their differences

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OpenAL logo OpenAL

OpenAL is a cross-platform 3D audio API appropriate for use with gaming applications and many other...

PortAudio logo PortAudio

PortAudio is a cross platform, open-source, audio I/O library.
  • OpenAL Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-10-21
  • PortAudio Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-06-15

OpenAL videos

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What is Openal used for?

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  • Review - (2/3) OpenAL implementation audio quality comparison: X-Fi card

PortAudio videos

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to OpenAL and PortAudio)

OpenAL

PortAudio

Game Engine
53 53%
Game Engine
47% 47
Development Tools
50 50%
Development Tools
50% 50
Game Development
69 69%
Game Development
31% 31
Rapid Application Development
34 34%
Rapid Application Development
66% 66

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, PortAudio seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

OpenAL mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of OpenAL yet. Tracking of OpenAL recommendations started around Mar 2021.

PortAudio mentions (1)

  • Python speech recognition for pulseaudio
    FYI PyAudio built on this software: http://portaudio.com/ which interfaces directly with Alsa/OSS (refer to the sounds system page, I'm not saying Open-Source Software here) which PulseAudio also does. Source: about 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenAL and PortAudio, you can also consider the following products

FMOD - FMOD Studio is an audio middleware solution and engine for games.

JUCE - JUCE is a wide-ranging C++ class library for building rich cross-platform applications and plugins...

Wwise - Game audio engine, designed to give artists more control and save programmers' time.

RtAudio - RtAudio is a set of C++ classes that provide a common API for realtime audio input/output across...

SoLoud - Easy to use, free, portable c/c++ audio engine for games.

OpenAL Soft - OpenAL Soft is an LGPL-licensed, cross-platform, software implementation of the OpenAL 3D audio API.

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