Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 15:30:40 -0500 (EST) From: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins) To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 16bit/44khz/GUSMax playback problem Message-ID: <199601012030.PAA05876@acmex.gatech.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960101112750.11379C-100000@spark28.ecf> from "FICNAR FRANK G" at Jan 1, 96 11:34:08 am
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> > > On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Brian AGENT GORDON COLE Atkins wrote: > > > I've got some WAVs I'm trying to listen to that were taken direct > > off a CD(CD-DA). This is on 2.1.0R stock setup. When I cat it to > > dsp0 or 2, all I get is screeching :) Other files work great with > > it and the audio device... but this is the first time I've tried > > listening to high quality(44khz...) sounds. Is there some trick > > I'm missing? > > > > I am pretty sure that the dsp devices are initially set for 8-bit mono, > 8kHz playback on startup so trying to cat an audio file with different > parameters to these device will produce undesired results. You will have > to set the devices to 44kHz playback and probably 16-bit stereo (if the > sound files are from a CD) to hear the audio files properly. I don't know > of any way to do this without building your own program to access > /dev/mixer using a few ioctl calls. Look for the Voxware driver > documentation out there. I found it very useful when I first started into > these things. > You've got to be kidding! There isn't some kind of sound playing program out there that can do this for me? What are you guys using with Netscape for instance to play WAVs?
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