Re: Sound installed but now what???

[larrys lexis-nexis com (Larry Snyder)]

What happens if you:  cat some-file.au > /dev/audio?
That would eliminate sox....
-ls-

"Wes Bauske" <wsb@paralleldata.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Wes
> 
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