[LAD] Need some _basic_ help...

2010-06-13 Thread Rory Filer
Hello Everyone, In my new job I've been assigned to create a proof of concept "mp3 player" using an existing product from our company. Trouble is, I've not done anything with audio before and the timeframe is tight. I guess my new boss thinks it's a piece of cake - "it's only software, after all,

[LAD] Basic Question: SND/SOUND Libraries Seem to be Missing

2010-09-12 Thread Rory Filer
Hello, Let me point out in advance that my problem is pretty trivial compared to most of the postings on that list. If a journey in sound engineering on Linux is 1000 steps, I'm at step 1 here. I basically tried configuring sound into the kernel but it didn't seem to work. If you think you can hel

Re: [LAD] Basic Question: SND/SOUND Libraries Seem to be Missing

2010-09-13 Thread Rory Filer
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Robin Gareus wrote: > On 09/13/2010 07:49 PM, Rory Filer wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Robin Gareus wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Hi Rory, > >> > >> You're not missing a libra

[LAD] Not Sure How to Proceed

2010-10-21 Thread Rory Filer
Hi I'm working on a custom-built embedded platform with the Marvell PXA310 processor, trying to make one of the SSP outputs work in I2S mode. Today I managed to get everything to compile and boot, but nothing appears in /dev/audio and I'm not sure what to do next. Here's the relevant portion of th

Re: [LAD] Not Sure How to Proceed

2010-10-21 Thread Rory Filer
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Patrick Shirkey < pshir...@boosthardware.com> wrote: > > What about /proc/asound ? > Hmm. I didn't know about that location and will have to do some reading. A quick look through there doesn't reveal very much. The contents of the /proc/asound/oss/sndstat f

Re: [LAD] Not Sure How to Proceed

2010-10-22 Thread Rory Filer
>On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Paul Davis wrote: > > did you write an ALSA driver or an OSS driver? > I took an existing ALSA driver and modified it for my devkit. In the meantime, I've figured out my mistake. I took away too much from the DAC driver to create my dummy DAC and threw away the

[LAD] PCM Troubleshooting Questions

2010-10-31 Thread Rory Filer
Hello, For most of the last week I've been stuck trying to configure my silicon peripheral to generate Normal I2S audio data to mostly _bad_, results and had a couple of questions (below). Briefly, my setup is as follows: SqueezeServer on a Windows host PC, Squeezeslave on my embedded Linux devic

Re: [LAD] PCM Troubleshooting Questions

2010-11-02 Thread Rory Filer
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Rory Filer wrote: > And what exactly did you change that made it stop working at all? An excellent question and I still don't know the answer. I kept thinking I could make it just a little better with another tweak to the SSP re

Re: [LAD] PCM Troubleshooting Questions

2010-11-03 Thread Rory Filer
2010/11/3 Jörn Nettingsmeier : > On 10/31/2010 08:51 PM, Rory Filer wrote: > >> I've actually heard _some_ recognizable audio - I could tell it was >> the song I had selected, but it sounded very distorted (sounded >> horrible) and I'm certain it wasn't bec

Re: [LAD] PCM Troubleshooting Questions

2010-11-07 Thread Rory Filer
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Jens M Andreasen > > "We got signal?" :) Yes indeed. I even treated myself to a handful of candies from the corner vendor :) > > What I would do at this point, is to generate a 1000 Hz tone with only a > single bit set, shift the bit through the 32 possible positi

Re: [LAD] PCM Troubleshooting Questions

2010-11-07 Thread Rory Filer
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > Switching between I²S and left-justified will exchange left/right. > Try using a stereo file with data on only one channel, and see if > data or noise appears on the other channel. > I've managed to set up and play with Audacity and can

[LAD] Is there a Linux Software Mixer?

2010-11-28 Thread Rory Filer
Hi All I think I know the answer to this, but I was wondering if it's possible to mix two separate audio sources in software. I'd like to be able to play announcement-type audio atop the currently playing main track. An example might be when driving down the Autobahn and a traffic report temporari

Re: [LAD] Is there a Linux Software Mixer?

2010-11-29 Thread Rory Filer
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:39 PM, wrote: > This could mean two things: > > * mixing the outputs of two or more apps driving the same >  sound card, or Yes, this is the case. I had already tried that and found that the second app couldn't open the card because the first one already had it open.

Re: [LAD] Is there a Linux Software Mixer?

2010-11-29 Thread Rory Filer
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Julien Claassen wrote: >  Of course you should be able to do that in software. Hi Julien, My hardware is barebones - no graphical interface, but a console with a command line interface. I am also limited in the amount of Flash and RAM space available so I'll b

Re: [LAD] Is there a Linux Software Mixer?

2010-11-30 Thread Rory Filer
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Paul Davis > wrote: > There are two approaches to the situation of multiple applications > using one soundcard. > > One involves using the capabilities built into ALSA itself. This means > making each application open a dmix device. Bingo! I've been playing wi