In need of audio advice

SDL Development
1

Im trying to continuesly play a set of chunks within a single channel.
eg 0 is a chunk of type A, 1 is a chunk of type B.

channel 1: 0 1 0 1 1 0 -> play continuesly
- - - - - -

channel 2: 1 0 1 0 0 0 -> play continuesly
- - - - - -

Mix_PlayChannel enables me to only play 1 chunk per channel continuesly which is
a problem since i plan to to play an array of chunks continuesly. What i
originally did was create 3 SDL threads, each corresponding to a single channel.
Each thread would then play each chunk within an array continuesly and
concurrently with other threads.

eg:
channel_1_thread()
{
while(true) {
for(int i=0;i<10;++i)
Mix_PlayChannel(1, &chunkArray1[i], 0);
}
}
channel_2_thread()
{
… {
…
Mix_PlayChannel(2, &chunkArray2[i], 0);
}
}
This did work, however as more threads where executed concurrently, latency
between chunks became significantly evident. Is there an efficient way i can
achieve this using SDL???

Any help is dearly appreciated.
cheers
Alan

2

Im trying to continuesly play a set of chunks within a single channel.
eg 0 is a chunk of type A, 1 is a chunk of type B.

channel 1: 0 1 0 1 1 0 -> play continuesly
- - - - - -

channel 2: 1 0 1 0 0 0 -> play continuesly
- - - - - -

Mix_PlayChannel enables me to only play 1 chunk per channel continuesly which is
a problem since i plan to to play an array of chunks continuesly. What i
originally did was create 3 SDL threads, each corresponding to a single channel.
Each thread would then play each chunk within an array continuesly and
concurrently with other threads.

eg:
channel_1_thread()
{
while(true) {
for(int i=0;i<10;++i)
Mix_PlayChannel(1, &chunkArray[i], 0) == -1)
}
}
channel_2_thread()
{
…
…
…
}
This did work, however as more threads where executed, latency between chunks
became significantly evident. Is there an efficient way i can achieve this???

Any help is dearly appreciated.
cheers
Alan