From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jan 13 07:53:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA01632 for multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 07:53:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mozart.american.com (mozart.american.com [204.253.96.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA01627 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 07:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mozart.american.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA10134; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 10:51:25 -0500 Message-Id: <199601131551.KAA10134@mozart.american.com> X-Authentication-Warning: mozart.american.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@freebsd.org, multimedia@rah.star-gate.com, brad@mozart.american.com Subject: Re: vat: no audio output In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 1996 20:27:04 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 10:51:25 -0500 From: Brad Parker Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It's an interesting artifact of the vat code that if the audio open fails, then the VU meters don't do anything even if audio is being received from the net... (so, for example, if /dev/audio is not accessible to your process, because it's chmod 600, vat looks dead even if you are getting audio from the net) -brad Doug White wrote: ... >2. I get no audio from the other machine, or from the tests. I only get >a little `blip' when I quit out of vat. Vat's stats show that packets >are getting sent, however. > >3. I have trouble with vat losing the audio device (it's bottom titlebar >turns italic), and the microphone's VU meters don't move, except the >first time I fire it up. If I open the menu, then the microphone doesn't >respond in vat.