Bug#532690: ITP: alure -- AL Utilities REtooled

[Andres Mejia]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>

* Package name    : alure
  Version         : 1.0
  Upstream Author : Chris Robinson <chris.kcat at gmail.com>
* URL             : http://kcat.strangesoft.net/alure.html
* License         : LGPL
  Programming Lang: C, C++
  Description     : ALURE - AL Utilities REtooled

ALURE is a utility library to help manage common tasks with OpenAL applications.
This includes device enumeration and initialization, file loading, and
streaming. It is LGPL licensed, allowing it to be used in open- and
closed-source programs, freeware or commercial.

The purpose of this library is to provide pre-made functionality that would
otherwise be repetitive or difficult to (re)code for various projects and
platforms, such as loading a sound file into an OpenAL buffer and streaming an
audio file through a buffer queue. Support for different formats is consistant
across platforms, so no special checks are needed when loading files, and all
formats are handled through the same API.

Currently ALURE includes a basic .wav and .aif file reader, and can leverage
external libraries such as libSndFile (for extended wave formats and several
others), VorbisFile (for Ogg Vorbis), and FLAC (for FLAC and Ogg FLAC). External
libraries can also be dynamically loaded at run-time, or individually disabled
outright at compile time.