[rescue] my NPR interview is up!

[Ken Hansen]

Two dumb questions:

1) Why not just run a wire from line-out to line in and run the record
program (hardware limitation?)

2) James, what are you doing up so early (5:00 am pacific time)!

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: <james at foonly.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] my NPR interview is up!


> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Greg wrote:
>
> > Just compile it to a shared object, run rvplayer with LD_PRELOAD
pointing to
> > the shared object, and the (very) raw audio data will be written to
stderr.
> > I then use sox to convert to the raw data to a well-defined audio file
> > format (RIFF, Sun/NeXT, etc.) and then convert to MP3.
>
> Just to add: to solve otherGreg's problem you would probably have to
> intercept the audio writes completely without passing them through.  For a
> /dev/audio system trapping ioctl() and stat() in addition to the other
> calls listed would probably be sufficient, state of the virtual audio
> device could be held directly in an audio_info_t.  I have no idea what
> would be necessary for stubbing out OSS, but I can't imagine it being much
> more difficult.
>
> One thing I have been curious about, though, is how applications being
> displayed on Sunrays transmit their audio to the 'rays themselves.
> Obviously they're still opening /dev/audio locally, so some funny business
> must be going on behind the scenes to redirect it.
>
> -James
>
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