On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 02:23:45PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Paul Rogers wrote:
> >
> > But it turns up another question. I have an old .au file of Linus
> > saying, "This is {Leenus}..." and something else uniuntelligible, in
> > Finnish? I've used that as a sound check. aplay has no problem on this
> > Conroe/G43 chipset box. But a "format non[sic] available" error on the
> > i7/X58 chipset. Trying to find out why, I ran into "plugins" in
> > asoundrc, which were very mysterious, but also a suggestion that these
> > old 8000hz mu-law sources might not be usable on some devices. So I
> > don't know how much of this is done in software and what's in hardware.
> > What is it I should know, or where can I find an understandable
> > explanation?
>
> I think you need libsndfile for the au format.
>
Hmm, alsa used to be able to play that file (it's in Swedish) but
none of my recent machines have been able to play 8KHz sound files -
I think it's a hardware limitation.
When I'm on a machine with working sound (not my main development
machine, I'll need to bisect at some point to find where that lost
sound) I'll try to remember to rebuild alsa after libsndfile.
ĸen
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