Re: raw audioformat for /dev/dsp???

Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
Thu, 07 Jan 1999 18:46:11 +0100


Peter-Paul Witta wrote:

> what's the native audio-format that /dev/dsp or /dev/audio or whatever
> (major 14, minor 3) "understands"?

For most devices its 1 channel 8bits/sample ulaw encoded (or was it
Alaw?)
8ksamples/s.

> how can one cat a stereo data stream to this device?

You can't. Use sox to play audio data.

Tom

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