Subject: Re: Sidplay on an IPC
To: Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
From: Linc Fessenden <linc@thelinuxlink.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/15/2002 12:02:59
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Thilo Manske wrote:

> But it can't work on Sun 4c style audio without some source-level hacking=
,
> even if you fix the problem with of the play rate using sidplay's "-f" op=
tion.
> The reason is that the am7930 hardware/driver can only handle =B5law enco=
ding
> but sidplay wants linear encodings (I think it needs "ulinear_le").
>=20
> A workaround would be using sid2wav (comes with sidplay) and than play th=
e
> produced file with audiplay:
>=20
> sid2wav -u -f8000 tune.sid
> audiplay tune.au
>=20
> (sid2wav doesn't support piping :-( and using /dev/audio as output file
> doesn't work either, hacking sid2wav to ouput to /dev/audio is probably e=
asier
> than hacking sidplay to use =B5law encoding...).

AHA!  Now we're getting somewhere.. I am gonna try this - Thanks!

-Linc Fessenden

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