/dev/dsp has problems playing short wav-files! # Cygwin 1.7.28 (32bit), Windows 7 (64 bit).
# get 2 test files here ( 25 kB both ) wget http://www.physik.tu-berlin.de/~aleks/wave14sL.wav wget http://www.physik.tu-berlin.de/~aleks/wave16sL.wav # Test that fails: cp wave16sL.wav /dev/dsp ==> I hear something (file = 1.6 sec, 12 kB). cp wave14sL.wav /dev/dsp ==> I hear nothing ! (file = 1.4 sec, 13 kB). # Format: both 8000 Hz, mono, 8 bit. (but first file is played truncated!) aplay same.wav # in Ubuntu 12.04 works fine. # also any other player (Win32 or Ubuntu is able to play both files fine). $ file wave14sL.wav wave16sL.wav wave14sL.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, mono 8000 Hz wave16sL.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, mono 8000 Hz $ cat /proc/version CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 version 1.7.28(0.271/5/3) (cori...@calimero.vinschen.de) (gcc version 4.8.2 20131016 (Fedora Cygwin 4.8.2-2) (GCC) ) 2014-02-09 21:06 Thanks for reply, Alexander -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
