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Bug 43

Summary: Add a way to enumerate and select audio/video/etc drivers.
Product: SDL Reporter: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Component: *don't know*Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: API change    
Priority: P2 CC: max, slouken
Version: 2.0.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Ryan C. Gordon 2006-01-12 17:25:17 UTC 
So we can sanity check the final binaries for missing targets, and also so these can be programmatically discovered and chosen (environment variables don't count!).

--ryan.
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2006-01-19 07:45:22 UTC 
*** Bug 54 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2006-01-27 11:23:14 UTC 
Setting Sam as "QA Contact" on all bugs (even resolved ones) so he'll definitely be in the loop to any further discussion here about SDL.

--ryan.
Comment 3 Max Horn 2006-04-17 03:49:31 UTC 
Indeed, we've had to tell too many of our users (IMHO :-) about how to use those arcane SDL_* env vars to get ScummVM working on their system. It would be so much nicer if we could provide our own configuration option for this, w/o hacking up the env vars before calling SDL code...
Comment 4 Sam Lantinga 2006-05-20 00:35:45 UTC 
This is implemented in SDL 1.3:
        Added SDL_GetNumVideoDrivers() and SDL_GetVideoDriver().
        Replaced SDL_VideoDriverName() with SDL_GetCurrentVideoDriver()
        Added SDL_GetNumAudioDrivers() and SDL_GetAudioDriver().
        Replaced SDL_AudioDriverName() with SDL_GetCurrentAudioDriver()

You can already initialize specific drivers:
SDL_VideoInit(), SDL_AudioInit()