Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:04:10 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Novice question about testing sound cards Message-ID: <59715.1036443850@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:59:11 %2B0000. <3DC6DF9F.3010307@cream.org>
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In message <3DC6DF9F.3010307@cream.org>, you wrote: >>>I'm not totally sure about this, but I think that you can dump audio >>>file in the 'au' format directly to devices. A test au format file can >>>be found on http://www.cti.ecp.fr/documents/a_sound.au (This was linked >>>to from http://www.cti.ecp.fr/documents/tests/au.html which you might >>>also find useful). >> >> >> OK, I'm willing to give that a try, but what device should I can the .au >> file to? Do I cat to /dev/dsp0 ? > >Yes, give it a try. I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out. I cat'd the file to /dev/dsp0. Was that correct? > As I mentioned above, if you have MP3 files then try >using a command-line mp3 decoder as well. They also use the /dev/dsp >entries. OK. I'll try that too. Where can I pick up some short free MP3 files for testing? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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