Re: [linux-audio-dev] audio from dvd?

2001-10-18 Thread Peter Surda
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:09:07PM -0400, Andy Wingo wrote: > Hi Peter, hi > > URL. l52dec apparently only handles output to an audiocard. > a52dec you mean? yes sorry. > gstreamer-launch filesrc location=/path/to/track.ac3 ! a52dec ! afsink >location=out.wav type=4 This is the problem: a52dec

Re: [linux-audio-dev] surround encoding

2001-10-18 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
>From: Nick Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I believe so: you need an omni and two figure-of-eights for a minimal I just browsed David Griesinger's papers at his homepage (search with google, say). There is a paper (AES '92?) which gives angles for different microphone types for achieving uncorrel

Re: [linux-audio-dev] audio from dvd?

2001-10-18 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Peter, On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Peter Surda wrote: > If someone knows a ac3->wav converter for linux I'd be very happy to know the > URL. l52dec apparently only handles output to an audiocard. a52dec you mean? gstreamer can do this, out of cvs right now though as things have changed a bit since

Re: [linux-audio-dev] audio from dvd?

2001-10-18 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Thanks! That's the ticket. Took just a bit of tweaking on the chapter/title param, but a short sample sounds perfect. -- Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605 Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002 New Mexico State University http://www.cs.n

Re: [linux-audio-dev] audio from dvd?

2001-10-18 Thread Peter Surda
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:23:30AM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Speaking of off-topic... but this list seems to be the likeliest to > have people who know the answer. > > What's the best way for me to take the audio track from a DVD so I can > burn it on a CD-ROM? Yes, the DVD is CSS encoded...

RE: [linux-audio-dev] surround encoding

2001-10-18 Thread Richard W.E. Furse
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nick > Bailey > Sent: 18 October 2001 13:18 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] surround encoding > > > Steve Harris wrote: > > > > > Thanks, I'm very interested in ambisonics, but

Re: [linux-audio-dev] surround encoding

2001-10-18 Thread DAVID G MATTHEWS
I do think I saw something on that site, but I also saw that on the bulletin board of some recording magazine, probably EQ. -dgm On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:39:16AM -0400, David Gerard Matthews Jr. wrote: > > I read somewhere that you can buy a pair

Re: [linux-audio-dev] huge latency peaks with 2.4.10-smp kernel

2001-10-18 Thread D. Stimits
Paul Davis wrote: > > >I can afford either dual Athlon 1,2GHz with EIDE disks, or single > >Athlon 1,53MHz with SCSI Ultra160 disks. Any idea which would be best > >(the post below emphasises the importance of SMP). > > i would try to get a dual motherboard with onboard SCSI. don't use > SCSI f

[linux-audio-dev] Plugin bugfixes

2001-10-18 Thread Steve Harris
Version 0.2.1 http://plugin.org.uk/releases/0.2.1/ Fixed floating point Exception in the LFO Phaser Fixed silence in sifter if the input was [-1,1] bounded (my quicksort code was buggy). Many thanks to Dave Phillips for reporting the bugs and Kai Vehmanen for building a tool I could test with.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] huge latency peaks with 2.4.10-smp kernel

2001-10-18 Thread Paul Davis
>This is something I've been complaining about for a long time and since >given up because kernel developers seem to be only interested about kernel developers like ingo molnar? like andrew morton? like richard love? yes, the majority are focused on throughput, but you know what - that will actua

Re: [linux-audio-dev] huge latency peaks with 2.4.10-smp kernel

2001-10-18 Thread Jussi Laako
Kai Vehmanen wrote: > > Engine loop: > Fastest/slowest/average loop time: 0.4/2364.1/5.9 msec. > Disk i/o loop: > Fastest/slowest/average loop time: 0.0/3930.2/0.5 msec. This is something I've been complaining about for a long time and since given up because kernel developers seem to be only int

[linux-audio-dev] audio from dvd?

2001-10-18 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Speaking of off-topic... but this list seems to be the likeliest to have people who know the answer. What's the best way for me to take the audio track from a DVD so I can burn it on a CD-ROM? Yes, the DVD is CSS encoded... I tried grabbing the audio stream using esdmon, but this wound up with

Re: [linux-audio-dev] huge latency peaks with 2.4.10-smp kernel

2001-10-18 Thread Paul Davis
>I can afford either dual Athlon 1,2GHz with EIDE disks, or single >Athlon 1,53MHz with SCSI Ultra160 disks. Any idea which would be best >(the post below emphasises the importance of SMP). i would try to get a dual motherboard with onboard SCSI. don't use SCSI for now; upgrade later if you need

Re: [linux-audio-dev] huge latency peaks with 2.4.10-smp kernel

2001-10-18 Thread andrew
Hi, Sorry, this may be somewhat off-topic (please say so and I'll take this elsewhere). I am considering buying a machine for sound generation, recording, and midi (for example, recording soft synthesis, external bass guitar and drum machine in parallel, although I realise in practice I may hav

Re: [linux-audio-dev] surround encoding

2001-10-18 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:39:16AM -0400, David Gerard Matthews Jr. wrote: > > I read somewhere that you can buy a pair of cheapo PZM mics, and then > > mount them on a piece of fiberglass with the bottoms of the plates > > facing each other. (I.E., the fiberglass is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] surround encoding

2001-10-18 Thread andrew
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:39:16AM -0400, David Gerard Matthews Jr. wrote: > I read somewhere that you can buy a pair of cheapo PZM mics, and then > mount them on a piece of fiberglass with the bottoms of the plates > facing each other. (I.E., the fiberglass is between the bottoms of the > PZM pl

[linux-audio-dev] huge latency peaks with 2.4.10-smp kernel

2001-10-18 Thread Kai Vehmanen
Just in case someone is still wondering why we are constantly talking about lowlatency kernel patches... Playing an mp3s with ecaplay, running as root with sched_fifo scheduling, disk i/o done in a separate i/o thread, smp-machine (usually helps to keep latency-peaks down), minor system load, I so

Re: [linux-audio-dev] surround encoding

2001-10-18 Thread Nick Bailey
Steve Harris wrote: > > Thanks, I'm very interested in ambisonics, but was put off by the price of > the equipment, looks like decoding is covered then. Do you know if its > posible to build a soundfield type mic using cheap elements, or does it > require really good ones? > > - Steve I believe

Re: [linux-audio-dev] the joy of windows drivers

2001-10-18 Thread Jelle
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:20:47AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > don't wanna get flamed or whatever, and i am currently trying to produce > an album using linux as the os > > but > > to an outside observer it seems that its easy to have a poke at windows, > but theres no linux software tha

Re: [linux-audio-dev] surround encoding

2001-10-18 Thread David Gerard Matthews Jr.
Steve Harris wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:21:01PM +0100, Do you know if its > posible to build a soundfield type mic using cheap elements, or does it > require really good ones? > > - Steve I read somewhere that you can buy a pair of cheapo PZM mics, and then mount them on a piece of f

RE: [linux-audio-dev] the joy of windows drivers

2001-10-18 Thread Mikko Helin
Unfortunately it's only usual marketing hype, there is no new standard. -Mikko Quoting Ivica Bukvic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Maybe there's hope on horizon for the win users (or should I say, it's > already out there? :-): > > This is the URL pointing to the newly developed E-WDM drivers ("enhance

Re: [linux-audio-dev] ecamegapedal catches up (was: (Re: kladspa?))

2001-10-18 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:58:00PM +0300, Kai Vehmanen wrote: > > Arrggh, and the same for all hint-fields except rangehints->lowbound and > rangehints->upperbound. I admit I deserve the "how about testing your code > even once" comment. :) I would never say such a thing ;) Anyway, I though it w

Re: [linux-audio-dev] surround encoding

2001-10-18 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:21:01PM +0100, Richard W.E. Furse wrote: > Now there's a subject and a half. Ambisonics is *different* to 5.1 and has > advantages and disadvantages (mostly advantages IMHO). Much of the power of > Ambisonic encoding is that you can find an optimal decoding strategy for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] surround encoding

2001-10-18 Thread Nick Bailey
"Richard W.E. Furse" wrote: > > Now there's a subject and a half. Ambisonics is *different* to 5.1 and has > advantages and disadvantages (mostly advantages IMHO). Much of the power of > Ambisonic encoding is that you can find an optimal decoding strategy for > whatever speakers are available and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] the joy of windows drivers

2001-10-18 Thread yeeking
don't wanna get flamed or whatever, and i am currently trying to produce an album using linux as the os but to an outside observer it seems that its easy to have a poke at windows, but theres no linux software thats near any of the mentioned packages and the linux software that looks towa