Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 12:30:16 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com> Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Native Port of RA's encoder... Message-ID: <199611232030.MAA28427@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:59:53 -1000." <199611231959.JAA00839@localhost.my.domain>
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Just bug Progressiv Networks for a native FreeBSD port of their encoder. It should not be a big deal for them given that they use FreeBSD . Amancio >From The Desk Of "David Langford" : > >I have been playing with the raencoder for Linux, and it works great > >on FreeBSD. (Note that I had to brand the static ELF binary.) Also, > >I have run some careful tests on ra quality, and maybe it is better > >than I could do with 128Kb/sec, but the CD quality sure sounds like > >FM quality to me... (Strange hi-freq artifacts.) However, it is > >cool to be able to compress alot of sound by a factor of approx > >(10-25):1, and it still sound tolerable. > > > > OKay I forgot about branding.... > Still cannot get either version of the encoder to work for me. > Realaudio folks seem to have forgotten to put LTA support into > the Elf version and the a.out version gives me: > > % file ./raencoder > raencoder: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped > % ./raencoder -l line -L -H 205.166.000.0 -P 7070 -W passwd -o test.ra > LINUX: 'ioctl' fd=4, typ=0x44d(M), num=0xff not implemented > > raencoder: Error encountered: Cannot open audio device. > > ... > > % uname -a > FreeBSD caliban 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #1: Fri Nov 22 19:51:52 HST 1 996 > > > Any thoughts? I dont know my ioctls at all. > > -David Langford > langfod@dihelix.com >
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