> But good thinking, I might try downloading the windows drivers from via
> to see if they have sample sounds in them.
OK I downloaded the w2k drivers for the epia board and lo & behold
therein are sample files with a .wav prefix. They play on my office
windows two channel soundcard (well some do, I assume the sub and rear
channels won't work because of my simplistic sound card.)
When you open the .wav files in audacity in windows it shows six
channels, with sound in just one of those channels (as expected.)
when i try to play them in linux using aplay (the alsa version of play)
I get this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] surround-samples $ aplay CHCENTER.WAV
aplay: test_wavefile:689: can't play not PCM-coded WAVE-files
and tcprobe reports:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] surround-samples $ tcprobe -i CHCENTER.WAV
[tcprobe] RIFF data, WAVE audio
[tcprobe] summary for CHCENTER.WAV, (*) = not default, 0 = not detected
audio track: -a 0 [0] -e 48000,16,6 [48000,16,2] -n 0x1 [0x2000] (*)
bitrate=4608 kbps
( I am not sure quite what ALL that means, but the '-e 48000,16,6 bit
seems to correspond with windows properties dialog telling me it is
48kHz, 16 bit, 6 channel)
file tells me:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] surround-samples $ file CHCENTER.WAV
CHCENTER.WAV: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, 6 channels 48000 Hz
all very frustrating!
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Nick Rout
