1 message in org.freebsd.freebsd-multimediaRe: VoxWare Sound Driver| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Doug White | Nov 28, 1996 11:48 pm |
| Subject: | Re: VoxWare Sound Driver | |
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| From: | Doug White (dwh...@gdi.uoregon.edu) | |
| Date: | Nov 28, 1996 11:48:17 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-multimedia | |
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: dwh...@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major