On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:04:19PM +1300, Duncan McEwan wrote:
|I also tried doing a "audioctl -w play.rate=48000" and then doing a cat
|to /dev/sound but that gave the same error I was getting before (invalid
|argument).
|
|In fact, if I ktrace a cat to /dev/sound or /dev/audio it appears to be the
|open() call that is returning that error and not a write() or ioctl().  Is that
|what I should expect if the problem is as suggested - a codec that doesn't
|support variable rates?
|
|Unfortunately the machine I was testing was a demo and has gone back to the
|vendor now so I can't try anything else.  Thanks for your suggestions though.

I had the misfortune of getting a motherboard with the VIA82C686 
chipset on it with very similar results ... it's currently running 
Debian and playing all my .mp3s at 22khz and sounding really bad, but
I would like to run NetBSD on it and get a better output - I did try
the rate change for mpg123 a while ago and got something similar.

Didn't know about audioctl though, so I might reinstall NetBSD and
give that a shot ...

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