Re: Sound installed but now what???

["Wes Bauske" <wsb paralleldata com>]

Chris Albertson wrote:
> 
> Bob Taylor wrote:
> >
> > My SB AWE64 is now installed (Red Hat 5.1-2.0.35). I execute
> > play some-file.au and get the following:
> >
> >      sox: Unsupported encoding in Sun/NeXT header.
> >      Only U-law, signed bytes, signed words, and ADPCM are supported.
> >
> > This works fine on my Intel! Now what?? Any help will be MUCH appreciated!
> 
> I can guess.  There is a "magic number" in the file and it is
> binary.  The code (sox) is to dumb to know it needs to byteswap
> the number when running on a big endian machine.  This is an easy
> problem to fix if you have the source code.
> 

Alphas run little endian so if it worked on Intel,
it should work on the Alpha. Maybe just a bug in sox.

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Regards,

Wes