I also would like to report that a nice 440KHz cosine can be heard
perfectly OK with the default audio sink.
So now I have my doubts about the wav file source block instead of the
audio sink block....
Any ideas?
thanks
Achilleas
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Achilleas Anastasopoulos <anas...@umich.edu
> wrote:
> Hi Geof,
>
> thank you for your suggestions.
>
>
> Here is some more information from my Windows 7 running gnuradio binaries
> 3.7.10.1
>
> 1)
> When I use a simple wav file source with audio sink and without setting
> the "Device Name" entry I get the following output:
>
> INFO: Audio sink arch: windows
> gr::pagesize: no info; setting pagesize = 4096
> aOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaO
>
> I can hear the sound but it is not coming out at the right speed/etc
> regardless of what sample rate I choose.
>
> So I tried the second method that Geof suggested: entering explicitly the
> device ID and/or the string representing the device's name.
>
> 2)
> Following Geof's advice I went to the "Device Manager" and the "Sounds,
> video and game controllers" section and I see a device "High Definition
> Audio Device". I clink on the "Details" tab and under the Property "device
> description" i see "High Definition Audio Device", so this is what I put as
> the string under the "Device Name" property of the audio sink.
>
> The output then is:
>
> INFO: Audio sink arch: windows
> INFO: Warning: waveOut device 'High Definition Audio Device' was not
> found, defaulting to WAVE_MAPPER
> gr::pagesize: no info; setting pagesize = 4096
> aOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaO
> aOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOa
> aOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaOaO
>
> And the sound is the same as above.
>
> So my question is the following:
>
> How exactly can I find in the control panel the name of my audio device?
> Clearly the one I used ("High Definition Audio Device") was not found...
>
> Can it be that the problem is with the "wav file source" block and not
> with the audio sink block?
>
> Thanks
> Achilleas
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Geof Nieboer <gnieb...@corpcomm.net>
> wrote:
>
>> The audio device in the windows audio sink can be used one of two ways,
>>
>> First is to use a number which is the device ID of the audio device, the
>> second is to enter a string representing the device's name.
>>
>> Realize, however, that there is no way to interactively iterate through
>> the list of available devices, so you'll have to figure out the ID's/names
>> yourself through the control panel. It will give a warning in the output
>> log if what you entered is not found so you can least use trial and error.
>> If it can't find the device you entered, or you don't put an entry in, it
>> will use the WAVE_MAPPER device.
>>
>> Geof
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Tarquin Roode <tarquin.ro...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mine works, I am using 3.7.9.2
>>>
>>> So not a problem with the inary, it worked on Both Win 7 and Win 10
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am not a home a he moment so don’t have ss to my PC, bt I just
>>> plopped the Audio Sink down and it worked
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ood luck
>>>
>>> arqun
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Discuss-gnuradio [mailto:discuss-gnuradio-bounces+tarquin.roode=
>>> gmail....@gnu.org] *On Behalf Of *Achilleas Anastasopoulos
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, 05 November 2016 2:46 AM
>>> *To:* Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org
>>> *Subject:* [Discuss-gnuradio] problems with windows binaries and audio
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have installed the windows binaries from GCNDevelopment
>>>
>>> http://www.gcndevelopment.com/gnuradio/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A simple test with a wav file and an audio sink does not seem to work.
>>>
>>> I have changed the config file to use audio - windows but still this is
>>> not working.
>>>
>>> (same grc file works fine on Linux).
>>>
>>> I have tried this on both Windows 7 and 10 with no success.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can someone report if they had success with audio on Windows with these
>>> binaries?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas as to what else I can try?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Achilleas
>>>
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