On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Ryan Underwood wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 02:39:58PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > >
> > > You are correct, play works correctly but catting does not. It seems,
> > > however, that many OSS drivers support cat a wav file directly to /dev/dsp,
> > > and do the detection of the format parameters internally. I guess this is not
> > > required by the OSS specification?
> >
> > really do _many_ oss drivers support these features?
> > i've never thought of that...
>
> Every one I've used has done so (Aureal Vortex2, CS4614, c-media, etc).
> I don't know if it's the rule but it seems like fairly common behavior
> from my experience.
>
> In any case it's really not a big deal, just that ALSA's OSS emulation
> seems to be divergent from the typical OSS driver's behavior in that
> regard.
Show me a wav header parser code in these drivers. I guess that you are
a bit confused. The standard parameters are 8000Hz, mono, 8-bit unsigned
(/dev/dsp) or 8000Hz, mono, 16-bit unsigned (/dev/dsp16) or 8000Hz,
mono, muLaw (/dev/audio) as far as I work with sound drivers since 1994.
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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