Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:43:32 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: bruno schwander <bschwand@dvart.com>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxtv sound recording Message-ID: <20001115134332.A18957@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <3A1248E1.A6838DBC@cs.strath.ac.uk>; from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:27:13AM %2B0000 References: <3A119302.80B42CEB@dvart.com> <3A1248E1.A6838DBC@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 15-Nov-2000 at 08:27:13 +0000, Roger Hardiman wrote: > Hi Bruno > =20 > > I have TV playback working great, sound and all, with fxtv. However, > > whenever I try to record sound (whether alone or with video) fxtv > > freezes. The UI freezes and I have to kill fxtv from another console. > > I can than see a tiny raw sound file in the temp directory. > > Video capture (no sound) works great (althought fxtv complains that the > > compression script exited with a wrong return code, but I can run it > > manually and it works.) >=20 >=20 > There were a whole load of problems in FreeBSD 4.0 with the sound card > drivers. > And from what I can remember,=12recording on a Sound Blaster 16 was > one of the problems. >=20 > Just to give the history, FreeBSD 4.0 was the first release > of FreeBSD to use the new sound drivers from Cameron Grant. > (sometimes called the newpcm drivers) > These drivers support all the new PCI based sound cards and are > very good. But back at FreeBSD 4.0, there were a few problems. >=20 >=20 > I see you had downloaded and installed my latest bt848 drivers. > Unfortunatly I no not think there is an easy way to install > the latest sound drivers on a 4.0 machine. >=20 > So my only advice is to upgrade FreeBSD. >=20 > FreeBSD 4.2 will be released on November 20th and has the latest > sound card drivers. Well, the latest drivers are in -current only. At least the one for the Soundblaster; they seem to be different: andre@bali:~>ll /src/src-4/sys/dev/sound/isa/sb* =20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 22862 Oct 7 19:38 /src/src-4/sys/dev/sound/is= a/sb.c -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 8631 Apr 1 2000 /src/src-4/sys/dev/sound/is= a/sb.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 18332 Oct 7 19:38 /src/src-4/sys/dev/sound/is= a/sbc.c and in -current: andre@bali:~>ll /src/src-5/sys/dev/sound/isa/sb* =20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 8656 Jun 22 16:50 /src/src-5/sys/dev/sound/is= a/sb.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 20638 Nov 7 18:18 /src/src-5/sys/dev/sound/is= a/sb16.c -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 17595 Oct 29 11:47 /src/src-5/sys/dev/sound/is= a/sb8.c -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 18417 Oct 27 08:51 /src/src-5/sys/dev/sound/is= a/sbc.c I hope that 16Bit recording will work with the new ones... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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