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Date:      Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:02:07 -0400
From:      Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net>
To:        Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fxtv -> mpeg
Message-ID:  <19990620090207.A1125@ipass.net>
In-Reply-To: <199906200438.XAA08717@home.dragondata.com>; from Kevin Day on Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 11:38:42PM -0500
References:  <199906200438.XAA08717@home.dragondata.com>

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Kevin Day:
 |I tried recording something from fxtv to make an mpeg... i get as far as it
 |trying to run mpeg_musicin, and i get:
 |
 |     >>> Using Audio IFF sound file headers
 |     SmpFrqIndex: 0 is not a legal sample rate
 |     in "/root/whatever/myfile.aiff"
 |
 |I can play the aiff file in windows just fine... am I doing something wrong?

I'm not sure that I've seen this error before, but this may be a byte-order
problem.  FreeBSD-versions ago, I found I had to rebuild mpeg_audio from
scratch to get the byte order so it was compatible with sox and mpeg_encode.

But to nail it down, capture a clip with "MPEG Ready" as a Target (instead
of MPEG).  This'll leave you with raw capture files and a shell script with
a .sh extension).  Edit the first line of the script, and change
"#!/bin/sh" to " "#!/bin/sh -x".  Now, it'll print what its doing, and you
can see which command is griping.

Run the script and save off the output.  E.g.:

   go.sh >& OUT          (csh/tcsh), or 
   go.sh > OUT 2>&1      (sh/ksh/bash)

See what you find.

Also, check your audio capture format.  If you're not, try using Stereo 16-bit
44.1KHz.

Another thing to try:  see what sox thinks of your AIFF file directly.  Grab:

    wget http://www.ipass.net/~dbhopper/aa8vb/dsp-recplay.tgz

compile, then play:

    sox -t aiff /root/whatever/myfile.aiff -t raw -s -w -r 44100 - | \
      dsp-play -r 44100 -b 16 -c 2

Randall



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