From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 12 05:38:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8871516A4CE for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:38:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B763F43D39 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:38:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from beta.home (ppp137-243.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.243])i8C5cM4Y071875; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:08:23 +0930 (CST) From: Malcolm Kay Organization: at home To: m.hauber@mchsi.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:08:34 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200409121304.54335.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <200409121344.00742.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <200409120038.47662.m.hauber@mchsi.com> In-Reply-To: <200409120038.47662.m.hauber@mchsi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409121508.34562.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: Playing .au sound files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:38:26 -0000 On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 02:08 pm, Mike Hauber wrote: > On Sunday 12 September 2004 12:14 am, Malcolm Kay > > proclaimed: > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:12 pm, Mike Hauber wrote: > > > On Saturday 11 September 2004 11:34 pm, Malcolm Kay > > > > > > proclaimed: > > > > I'm looking for a command line utility to play .au > > > > sound files. > > > > > > > > Malcolm > > > > > > try the cat command... > > > > > > IE$ cat sound_file.au > /dev/audio > > > > Thanks Mike, > > but I already tried that. Something comes out but it is > > all over very quickly and nothing like I expect, or what > > kaboodle puts out. > > > > % waveplay -B 8 -C 1 -S 8000 soundfile.au > > sort of works but the quality is poor and it tries to > > present the header as sound. > > > > Malcolm > > Now I'm curious... What kind of sound card do you have > (dmesg)? Which driver is the kernal using (pcm, sbc, gusc, > or snd)? I ask because I've never experienced this. When > you use the play command, is there a difference? > Extract From /sbin/dmesg:- pcm0: port 0xd400-0xd403,0xd800-0xd803,0xdc00-0xdcff irq 10 at device 7.5 on pci0 pcm0: The play command is also all over in a flash. Malcolm