Date: 9 Feb 1996 16:58:52 GMT From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) To: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GUSMAX is 1/2 volume with /dev/dsp0 compared to /dev/dsp2? Message-ID: <4ffugd$n4c@prospero.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <7821.823736636@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@time.cdrom.com) wrote:
: jkh@time-> maplay ~/MPEGAudio/stereo-Angels.mp2
: <turn volume knob way up in order to be able to hear it - noise is similarly
: amplified. Yuck>
...
: 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
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