From owner-freebsd-multimedia  Wed Jan 10 00:17:31 1996
Return-Path: owner-multimedia
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA20198
          for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:17:31 -0800 (PST)
Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA20175
          for <multimedia@freebsd.org>; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:17:25 -0800 (PST)
Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA01589; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:17:52 +0100
Message-Id: <199601100817.JAA01589@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: vat: no audio output
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:17:52 +0100 (MET)
Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@freebsd.org,
        multimedia@rah.star-gate.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960109201935.232B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Jan 9, 96 08:27:04 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
Content-Type: text
Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org
Precedence: bulk

> 
> Hello people..
> 
> Now, I hope you've had lots of fun discussing the origins of multimedia, 
> but let's get back to my original question. :-)
> 
> I'm trying to establish a transmission between two FreeBSD boxes using
> vat, as a test before I have mbone turned on for our subnet.  I can add
> the session to sd ok, and it shows up, I can open it, but vat appears to
> be having trouble accessing the audio. 
> 
> 1.  On the two machines, the other will drop out of vat (grey-out).  
> Restarting vat brings it back, but only temporary.

Are you running vmix?

Do you have a line

exec $vat -U /tmp/vatsock -C $sd_sess(name) $packetfmt $mode $confaddr &

in your .sd.tcl ?

> 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.
> 
> I'm guessing that vat is having trouble communicating with the audio system.
> 
> Running FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE and the following from /dev/sndstat (it's the 
> same for both machines, SB AWE32 and an SB32):
> 
> VoxWare Sound Driver:3.0-beta-950506 (Sun Feb 5 14:38:12 EST 1995 freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com)
> Config options: ffffffff
> 
> Installed drivers: 
> Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
> Type 2: SoundBlaster
> Type 6: SoundBlaster16
> Type 7: SB16 MIDI
> 
> 
> Card config: 
> SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1
> SoundBlaster16 at 0x0 irq 65535 drq 5
> SB16 MIDI at 0x330 irq 65535 drq 4294967295
> OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 irq 65535 drq 4294967295
> 
> Audio devices:
> 0: SoundBlaster 16 4.12
> 
> Synth devices:
> 0: Yamaha OPL-3
> 
> Midi devices:
> 0: SoundBlaster 16 Midi
> 
> Timers:
> 0: System Timer
> 
> Mixers:
> 0: SoundBlaster
> 
> Running VAT 3.4 `i386' version, sd 1.17.  Retrieved from ee.lbl.gov.
> 
> cat file > /dev/audio works OK.  
> 
> Hints, solutions, etc. would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de