On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:20:03PM -0500, Nigel Reed wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:52:12PM -0400, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> > > Yes, it's most likely a bug in the driver for that soundchip (note
> > > the "variable rate ... not supported" message).
> > That means that the HARDWARE doesn't support variable rates.  To do
> > it right you have to do sample rate conversion in software.  This is
> > rather expensive to do if you want high quality.
> 
> I have an 8bit mono .wav file at 8Khz. I don't think quality is an
> issue here, it's just that I don't want it playing back at the speed
> of light rather than the speed of sound. I'm surprised someone hasn't
> come up against this problem before.
>
> Now, someone mentioned I should send in a pr...to fix what? To tell me
> that I can't do it...or to fix the codec? 

a couple options, in increasing order of desirability:

* fix the driver -- it's likely your codec does indeed support
  variable rate playback, but NetBSD's driver doesn't know how to
  configure it or use it.
* if indeed your codec does not support variable rate playback, the
  driver should fail on any attempt to change its fixed sample rate,
  rather than play at its fixed rate.

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