It may be bothersome to re-encode, but one does not get better quality by decoding then saving as uncompressed. If the files are going to be full size, why not take advantage of the better quality by 're-encoding'.
On 18 May 2010 11:24, Richmond Mathewson <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 18/05/2010 21:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> John Patten wrote: >> >>> Hi All... >>> >>> I've been having a problem playing back an audio file on a Linux computer >>> using an "arecord" a shell script to first create the audio file. >>> >>> The audio file gets created on the local machine, it then gets uploaded >>> to an ftp directory, however when I go to play the sound file locally using >>> just Rev it's just static white noise. >>> >> >> This is a typical symptom of playing back a file format that Rev doesn't >> support. You can't use any kind of compressed file format. Try re-recording >> using an uncompressed format, preferably saving as .au for Linux playback if >> possible. >> > > That seems needlessly bothersome (re-recording); I would be inclined to > convert them using Audacity: > > http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ > > > >> I'm not sure, even so, whether Rev will wait for the whole file to arrive >> before playing it. I suspect it will. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- ------------------------- Stephen Barncard Back home in SF _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
