DirectSound and Stream problems

[abcfantasy]

Hi, I've got a problem when creating a new DirectSound.Buffer object.

Wave files are saved as streams in a resources file and the following works perfectly:

soundBuffer = new Microsoft.DirectX.DirectSound.Buffer( Resources.wav1, device );

However, midi files are saved as an array of bytes. I try to copy that array in a stream, and then create the buffer but am getting an ArgumentException (Value does not fall within the expected range).

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream( Resources.midi1 );
soundBuffer = new Microsoft.DirectX.DirectSound.Buffer( stream, device );

What am I doing wrong?

Any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks
Andrew

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[JurkMonkey]

Have you looked at the

Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback class? I found it significantly easier to use than direct buffers.

 

[abcfantasy]

It seems that the Audio class can only open music saved in hard disk to play them. I prefer not to extract the music from the resources file.

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[abcfantasy]

I think the problem is that DirectSound supports only wave files, although not sure about this.

So it seems the only way is to use the AudioVideoPlayback class and extract the midi from the resources file.

If anyone knows another way of playing the midi files without having to extract them, kindly share your knowledge.

Thanks

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