From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jan 10 20:11:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA27861 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:11:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA27856 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:11:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA02169; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:12:13 -0800 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:12:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: multimedia@rah.star-gate.com cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: VAT: The Problems Continue Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello everybody. An update on my fight with VAT. 1. Thanks for the pointers with sd and .sd.tcl. You didn't tell me, however, the format of .sd.tcl :( I poked around in sd_start.tcl and found out you have to add a "proc start_vat {} {...}" structure around the line you gave me (I'm no tcl/tk programmer, sorry). 2. I finally got VAT 3.2 to play some audio. But that's it. This is pretty strange. I have vmix and vat up, with vmix pointed at /dev/dsp0 for record and play. (I figure I can swap back to vmix if I want to change the input/output mode.) well, I hit the ``play'' button and no go. So I go playing with the ``record'' and `play' buttons. Well, when I hit record, the output vu on vat moves! But no audio! So when I hit "play" on vmix, out comes about one second of transmitted audio. Then I have to clear both boxes, hit record for a sec, then play again. I get it piecemeal. :) If I hit record on and off real quick I get about the same amount of audio output when I go back to play. 3. I tried vat4.0a2 but ld.so dings me for not having a tk4.0 library. Looks like I need tk4.0, which is on the CD but I didn't install not knowing how much the other programs would like it. Should I install it and give it a go? 4. vmix works perfectly with the voxware mixers. And it looks pretty decent too :) 5. Has anyone asked Creative if duplex audio is even possible on the sb series? I remember the topic coming up on one of my mailing lists (which is now defunct), and I don't remember if the Creative rep answered it or not. 6. Should I keep echoing messages into both multimedia conferences? Thanks for your help on this. I'd be willing to serve as a guinea pig for any attempts at getting the sb better supported. I'm no kernel hacker though, upgrading the sound driver may be all I can do without good docs and/or getting totally lost :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major