Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:48:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VoxWare Sound Driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961128234511.6933H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.961128122923.durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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I'm carrying this over to multimedia, where it's really appropriate and the experts who work on this stuff live :) On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Jim Durham wrote: > By the way. Is there a good, succinct explanation of how the > various audio devices in /dev are supposed to be used? I've > looked though the handbook, FAQs, and searched the Web, but > to no avail. In particular, there are some strangenesses > involving the Voxware driver, like that RealAudio says it > uses the Voxware driver. When you try to run RA, it says > "audio device in use". Took me a while to realize that it > was talking about /dev/audio, which was in use, all right, > but by Voxware! I killed auserver and RA worked just fine. > > I discoverd that /dev/au plays .au files. But > /dev/midi0 does not play midi files. Playmidi, > I believe, claims to use the Voxware driver, but > only works in FM mode in reality. To play .au, just cat to /dev/audio: cat file.au > /dev/audio To get anything else, check out the 'sox' program. To play .wav's with it: sox file.wav -t au /dev/audio The midi driver connects to the midi port on your sound card, or the emulation thereof. Unless you have a wavetable-like card, fm is all you'll get. If you have a GUS or (in current) a SoundBlaster AWE32, you'll get real instruments. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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