From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Feb 9 09:13:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA23326 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:13:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (omega.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA23321 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:13:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from prospero.physik.fu-berlin.de (lislip.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.126]) by omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id SAA10445 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 18:13:35 +0100 (MET) Received: (from news@localhost) by prospero (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA23760; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 17:58:54 +0100 To: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Path: graichen From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Newsgroups: local.freebsd-multimedia Subject: Re: GUSMAX is 1/2 volume with /dev/dsp0 compared to /dev/dsp2? Date: 9 Feb 1996 16:58:52 GMT Organization: his FreeBSD box :-) Lines: 27 Distribution: local Message-ID: <4ffugd$n4c@prospero.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <7821.823736636@time.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.physik.fu-berlin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@time.cdrom.com) wrote: : jkh@time-> maplay ~/MPEGAudio/stereo-Angels.mp2 : ... : Is there any reason NOT to use /dev/dsp2? It's certainly a major win : for me with maplay, and playing MPEG audio is probably my #1 use of : the card (I have a large collection of favorites from IUMA which often : replace my CD player for hours at a time! :-). for all the others without a souncard ... you may also try /dev/pcaudio with the pca0 driver in the kernel - there you don't have any volume knob and of course only one output device :-) graichen@mordillo:~> maplay -l -s things.mp2 > /dev/pcaudio ... and it works ! (takes less than 40% cpu here - maybe there's a dsp hidden somethere in the pc speaker ?) t -- thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery