SDL_HINT_AUDIO_DEVICE_RAW_STREAM(3)

✨ NAME ✨

SDL_HINT_AUDIO_DEVICE_RAW_STREAM — bestie, this is the hint that tells a given audio device whether it should be doing the audio processing or whether you got it. 🎧💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_hints.h>

#define SDL_HINT_AUDIO_DEVICE_RAW_STREAM "SDL_AUDIO_DEVICE_RAW_STREAM"

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so listen. some operating systems are lowkey overachievers and will do echo cancellation, gain control, and noise reduction whenever they feel like it. it's giving helpful but also, like, uninvited?? 🙈

if your application is already handling all of that itself, you can set this hint and the OS will stop doing extra audio processing on top of you. no double-processing, no chaos. periodt. 👑

this corresponds to the WASAPI audio option AUDCLNT_STREAMOPTIONS_RAW. iykyk.

the variable can be set to the following values:

• "0" — audio processing can be done by the OS. (default) 🫶
• "1" — audio processing is done by the application. you're the main character now. 💪

heads up bestie: this hint should be set before an audio device is opened. setting it after is giving "too late" energy. 😭

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🦋 AVAILABILITY 🦋

this hint is available since SDL 3.4.0. she's a newer-era icon. ⭐

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and that's the whole vibe!! this page came to you from Simple Directmedia Layer, rockin' SDL 3.4.18. go set your hints early and slay your audio pipeline. mwah 💖✨🎀