From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Nov 28 23:45:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA04533 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:45:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA04528 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:45:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA06990; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:48:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:48:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jim Durham cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VoxWare Sound Driver In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm carrying this over to multimedia, where it's really appropriate and the experts who work on this stuff live :) On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Jim Durham wrote: > By the way. Is there a good, succinct explanation of how the > various audio devices in /dev are supposed to be used? I've > looked though the handbook, FAQs, and searched the Web, but > to no avail. In particular, there are some strangenesses > involving the Voxware driver, like that RealAudio says it > uses the Voxware driver. When you try to run RA, it says > "audio device in use". Took me a while to realize that it > was talking about /dev/audio, which was in use, all right, > but by Voxware! I killed auserver and RA worked just fine. > > I discoverd that /dev/au plays .au files. But > /dev/midi0 does not play midi files. Playmidi, > I believe, claims to use the Voxware driver, but > only works in FM mode in reality. To play .au, just cat to /dev/audio: cat file.au > /dev/audio To get anything else, check out the 'sox' program. To play .wav's with it: sox file.wav -t au /dev/audio The midi driver connects to the midi port on your sound card, or the emulation thereof. Unless you have a wavetable-like card, fm is all you'll get. If you have a GUS or (in current) a SoundBlaster AWE32, you'll get real instruments. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major