Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 01:38:08 +0000 (GMT) From: George Reid <greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCM, Audio, Ensoniq PCI Sound card, Kernel issue Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102200133210.1911-100000@sobek.openirc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <F285zDv60gxapzhad2V00002e73@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Dominic Marks wrote: > # cat some.wav > /dev/audio > > I might have also done "cat some.wav | /dev/audio" I'm not sure, would that > have made a difference? Yes. "cat some.wav | /dev/audio" makes no sense. That basically means "take the output of 'cat some.wav' and pipe it through the /dev/audio program". Nonsense, since /dev/audio is a device node and not a program. Mind you, "cat some.wav > /dev/audio" doesn't make any sense either. You can't just write a wave file to the device node and expect to get sound: a WAVE file is not just raw audio data. Investigate sox (/usr/ports/audio/sox) - this will let you test out the sound properly with WAVE files. > (probably...) It just made a horrible screeching > noise, so evidently something is wrong Actually, it's exactly what would be expected. G "And then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train, comin' your way." George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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