From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Mar 28 21: 6:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from and.engin.umich.edu (and.engin.umich.edu [141.213.42.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B0937B404 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:06:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (agorski@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by and.engin.umich.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA28247; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 00:06:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 00:06:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Adam D. Gorski" To: Sean LeBlanc Cc: Subject: Re: Cat'ing /dev/audio In-Reply-To: <20020328210300.A57458@hostwiththemost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You got the syntax backwards.. you want to redirect the au file to /dev/audio, not the other way around. Try cat sample.au > /dev/audio Hope that works... - Adam P.S. If anyone knows why my SB16 crackles and pops while I try to play mp3/ogg but works fine with .au and .wav files, feel free to let me know :P On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Sean LeBlanc wrote: ::For some reason, I can't get cat'ing of /dev/audio to work. Here is what ::happens when I try to cat /dev/audio to a .au file: :: ::bash-2.05$ cat /dev/audio > sample.au ::cat: /dev/audio: Invalid argument :: ::Any ideas why this isn't working? Sound currently plays on said soundcard; ::/dev/audio is there, I can record (sort of; this post is related to another ::post I've recently posted here) from this soundcard, but the sound is ::choppy. :: ::-- ::Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc@attbi.com Yahoo:seanleblancathome ::ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome ::Not many men have both good fortune and good sense. ::-Titus Livy :: :: ::To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ::with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message