From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 15 20:38:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDBC61065697 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:38:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834488FC20 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0FKcJGV055924; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:38:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:38:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:38:19 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: <20100115203819.GB95648@thought.org> References: <20100114012059.GA3921@thought.org> <20100114013746.GB67999@orion.hsd1.pa.comcast.net> <20100114024242.GA9744@thought.org> <20100114165717.GA5651@dan.emsphone.com> <20100114201616.GA73961@thought.org> <20100114211947.GB5651@dan.emsphone.com> <20100114223105.GA84284@thought.org> <20100114230825.GD5651@dan.emsphone.com> <20100115001351.GA27272@thought.org> <20100115171217.GE5651@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100115171217.GE5651@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: Glen Barber , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any port use /dev/dsp directly? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:38:35 -0000 On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:12:17AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 14), Gary Kline said: > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 05:08:25PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: [[ ... ]] > > > > > > sox myfile.wav -b 16 -e signed -r 22050 -c 2 myfile.raw > > > > > > will convert the wav file (whatever its format is) to a signed 16-bit > > > stereo raw file. For raw files, you can also use special file > > > extensions that specify the encoding ("myfile.s16" for example, for a > > > signed 16-bit file). Adding "-V3" to the beginning of the command will > > > print the full input and output specs, plus the filter chain required to > > > do the conversion (if any). The sox and soxformat manpages are pretty > > > comprehensive. > > > > > > > yes, the man page is thorough, but almost unreadable, at least to me. i > > found a tutorial with exaples that should the WAV to RAW conversion. on > > my freebsd desktop, sox didn't like it. it kept echoing the usage. > > That is a bit annoying, yes, but right before the usage test, it should have > printed an error message saying what it didn't like about your commandline. > > > on my ubuntu system, sox failed completely complaining that that it wasn't > > set for "auto" ..... [?] I checked again here to see if sox as play would > > work, and it does. so at least that much works. > > > > the error output escapes me. doesn't the ``-r 22050'' specify the > > sampling rate? > > Yes, but that was during the wav->raw conversion. The sample rate wasn't > stored in the raw file, because raw files are just that: raw audio data, > with no headers indicating sampling rate for encoding format. For the play > command to be able to handle a raw file, it needs to be told the rate and > format when it's run. > > > play FAIL formats: bad input format for file `myfile.raw': sampling rate was not specified > Hm. Well, once I'm further along in this stuff I'll ask your help again. I made more changes, happily advancing my project, just before I threw in the towel and went to watch the news. Spiders were gluing me to the desk with their webs. One immediate thought is that the -r 22050 may have been way too large since the WAV file is 8000Hz and mono. It is small as-is, but it wouldn't hurt to have it shrung by stripping off the header. just a thought. > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php