On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:09:19AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > If one produces a raw PCM dump of /dev/dsp such as > $ cat /dev/dsp >streamfile > > The result is an unsigned 8-bit 8-KHZ audio dump captured in > streamfile. If I cat streamfile >/dev/dsp, it plays so I know > that works. Has anybody successfully played such an unsigned > stream in mplayer? It would be nice to do that in order to use > the arrow keys which let you skip forward or backward at will. > > A read of the man page says that u8 is one of the > accepted formats so it looks like > mplayer -quiet -format u8 streamfile > should work but no luck.
In the worst case, convert it to a wav file: sox -r8000 -u -c1 -8 streamfile file.wav -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
