Re: output options?

[David Potter]

On 02:30 PM 7/31/00 -0500, brent harding propounded certain bytes, to wit:
>I never really thought of that idea before, the only reason I use alsa as
>emu10k1 used in sblive has no oss driver, so I made the kernel with sound
>support, but chose no other options. Can one achieve recording more than
>one thing at a time, mike and music at the same time?

Yes, you can playback & record simultaneously under OSS, if you hardware 
supports it.


>  Sox won't play
>through a pipe, it says needs file, not pipe, as I experimented attempting
>to record to /dev/tape, even symbolically linking it to /dev/tape.wav so
>the program would be happy, it never recorded, and never played either.

Sox *will* play through a pipe, as mentioned in the man page: "The input 
and output files may be standard input and output.  This is specified by 
'-'. The -t type option must be given in this case, else sox will not know 
the format of the given file."


>The
>reason real player doesn't have standard out is that they don't want you
>recording their streams in to a wave file or something,

I suspect this is true.  Is this also why trplayer doesn't support 
stdout?  I am a little confused regarding the relationship of trplayer to 
Real Networks, and its relationship to the open source community.


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David Potter, Network Architect
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