Downloaded the xmms dirver and installed the libsndfile library but XMMS still plays the sound fast... And also Crashes... I'm wondering if it's just my sound card. :-(``````
On Thursday 12 June 2003 17:19, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:18:53 -0400 > > Derrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm new to OSS Programming, and I'm attempting to play some 8bit wav > > files. However OSS is telling me that my sound card will not play 8bit , > > only 16bit. If I force it. The sound changes pitch, and is very fast. ( > > obviously ). > > > > Is there anyway to convert 8bit to 16bit on the fly? I've noticed that > > XMMS also fails to play the 8bit wav file correctly. > > You can fix this by disabling XMMS's built in WAV reader and using > XMMS_Sndfile instead: > > http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/XMMS/ > > which will also allow you to play a large number of other file types. > > > I've even tryed to convert the file from 8bit to 16bit using SOX. But > > with the same results. I would like to support 8bit file wavs in my > > program as MOST of the wavs available are in 8bit format... > > For reading sound files from within a program libsndfile: > > http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/ > > which is required by XMMS_Sndfile anyway. It contains an example program > which uses OSS to play back any sound file it can read. > > Erik -- I was in a bar and I walked up to a beautiful woman and said, "Do you live around here often?" She said, "You're wearing two different-color socks." I said, "Yes, but to me they're the same because I go by thickness." She said, "How do you feel?" And I said, "You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time..." -- Steven Wright, "Gentlemen's Quarterly"
