Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:44:26 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdd produces static ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910081143320.30583-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199910081434.QAA28001@freebsd.dk>
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Doing:
dd if=/tmp/track-10.cda conv=swab of=/usr/local/track-10-swap.cda
./pcmplay 128bits 1 44hz /usr/local/track-10-swap.cda
Results in the same static ... file sizes between the original and the
'swap'd are identical...
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > > It seems The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > > > > Hmm, have you tried byteswapping the file ??
> > > >
> > > > byteswapping? how?
> > >
> > > swapping the even and odd bytes of the file, fx with dd...
> >
> > thanks, I knew what byteswapping meant, but haven't got a clue how to do
> > it...what is 'fx', and I just finished reading teh dd man page from start
> > to finish, and nothing there talks about byteswapping...
>
> from man dd:
>
> conv= value[, value ...]
> Where value is one of the symbols from the following list.
>
> ...
> swab Swap every pair of input bytes. If an input buffer has
> an odd number of bytes, the last byte will be ignored
> during swapping.
>
> see ?
>
> -Soren
>
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