Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:17:52 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@freebsd.org, multimedia@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: vat: no audio output Message-ID: <199601100817.JAA01589@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960109201935.232B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Jan 9, 96 08:27:04 pm
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> > 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
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