From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Jan 1 12:30:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA08519 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 12:30:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from anvil.gatech.edu (anvil.gatech.edu [130.207.165.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA08514 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 12:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (gt4722a@acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA21704 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 15:30:42 -0500 From: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins) Received: (gt4722a@localhost) by acmex.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA05876 for multimedia@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 15:30:41 -0500 Message-Id: <199601012030.PAA05876@acmex.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: 16bit/44khz/GUSMax playback problem To: multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 15:30:40 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: from "FICNAR FRANK G" at Jan 1, 96 11:34:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Brian AGENT GORDON COLE Atkins wrote: > > > I've got some WAVs I'm trying to listen to that were taken direct > > off a CD(CD-DA). This is on 2.1.0R stock setup. When I cat it to > > dsp0 or 2, all I get is screeching :) Other files work great with > > it and the audio device... but this is the first time I've tried > > listening to high quality(44khz...) sounds. Is there some trick > > I'm missing? > > > > I am pretty sure that the dsp devices are initially set for 8-bit mono, > 8kHz playback on startup so trying to cat an audio file with different > parameters to these device will produce undesired results. You will have > to set the devices to 44kHz playback and probably 16-bit stereo (if the > sound files are from a CD) to hear the audio files properly. I don't know > of any way to do this without building your own program to access > /dev/mixer using a few ioctl calls. Look for the Voxware driver > documentation out there. I found it very useful when I first started into > these things. > You've got to be kidding! There isn't some kind of sound playing program out there that can do this for me? What are you guys using with Netscape for instance to play WAVs?