From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Jan 25 13:51:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22298 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 13:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (w2xo.pgh.pa.us [206.210.70.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22288 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 13:51:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Received: (from durham@localhost) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19116; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 16:51:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from durham) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 16:51:26 -0500 (EST) Organization: Dis- From: Jim Durham To: Chris Brunner Subject: RE: Playing Midi files Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25-Jan-98 Chris Brunner wrote: > Really? You got playmidi to work? I was never able to do so > satisfactorally. It sounded REALLY REALLY bad. Unlistenably so. Sounded > like it was going to crash or something. > Thanks a lot! Yes, playmidi has worked OK for me on 2.1.7, 2.2.1, 2.2.2 , 3.0-970806-SNAP and 3.0-971225-SNAP. Some of the instruments are apparently an octave low and the top hat is also, which gives an odd "tin can" sound to percussion. It doesn't lock up or stop, like you described. Timidity sounds much better. I installed both from the packages directory, not ports. Hmmm... the playmidi I have is probably from the 2.1.7 packages. I don't think I've ever updated it. You *might* try that version, if you can find it and see what hapens. Now, if someone could tell me why RealAudio's encoder core dumps when asked to input from any live source (cd, line, mic), I'd be very gratified! If you write live input to a raw sound fine and encode that, all is well. live input dumps immediately on starting. regards, Jim Durham Jim Durham