Re: gperiodic

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

the sound HOWTOs say something about  .au files and /dev/audio, and 
wav files and /dev/dsp...that they're different, as the two device files
are different, though in what way I don't know.


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On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Doug Loss wrote:

> Ramin Miraftabi wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > what are .au files?  what's their format?  do I have to translate them into
> > > the raw audio foramt, or can they ben directly cat'ted to /dev/dsp?
> > 
> > .au's are what started it... At times I've had problems with .wav's
> > cat'd to /dev/audio... (or /dev/dsp).
> > 
> That's one of the reasons I mentioned them.  Depending on the internal
> structure of the .wav files they can give poor reproduction when cat'd
> to /dev/audio.  The sound HOWTOs at the LDP go into that in a bit of
> detail.
> 
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