On Friday 26 March 2004 14:50, Chris Metzler wrote: >> Some other WAVE files that XMMS won't play are described thus: >> RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, ITU G.711 A-law, mono 8000 Hz >> But they can be converted to usable version: >> sox foo.wav -w foo-w.wav > > Right. 8000Hz A-law and u-law (.au) files are (were?) intended for > use in > digital telephony applications. You saw them all the time 10 or 15 > years ago (u-law especially on Sun boxes), and I guess some > applications > still use them; but not many create them anymore. It's not WAVE > audio in the way most people refer to ".wav" files these days.
That makes sense. Those A-law files are being in a telephony-related research project. > xmms' documentation (in /usr/share/doc/xmms/) states what file formats > it supports: > > } 5.1 Supported File formats > } ------------------------- > } > } OGG Vorbis > } MP2 and MP3 streams > } WAV/AU samples > > . . .which tells me that A-law support wasn't put in. Well, if you hadn't told me that, I would have expected "WAV/AU samples" to include the file above with "WAVE audio" in the file output! Thanks, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
