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Subject: Re: mtv - Any SB16/32/AWE32 owners hearing audio? 
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Find out where in the sound driver the sample rate is being set for
the sound blaster and check the code for supported rates.

Another to thing to try out is to playback with a freebsd binary
a sound stream with a similar sample rate and sample size (8 or 16 bits).

	Cheers,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Randall Hopper :
>      Ok sound hackers, I could use your help.  If you have a Sound Blaster
> 16, 32, or AWE32 and have tried mtv (www.mpegtv.com - Linux Video and
> System stream player) on an MPEG system stream (audio+video), I'd sure like
> to hear from you whether you're getting audio or not.
> 
>      After updating to the Voxware 3.5 driver and updating the Linux
> emulation to pass the new ioctls, mtv still doesn't play audio on my Sound
> Blaster 32 under FreeBSD 2.2.1.  I get a dialog that says:
> 
>    Warning!
>    Cant play audio: Dev. busy or sampl. rate unsup. (muting)
>    Invalid argument
> 
> I've buzzed all the MIXER and DSP ioctls and none of them are failing.  I'm
> guessing that maybe this is a write() to the audio device failing, but I'm
> not sure how to verify this on a Linux binary.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Randall
>