[SunHELP] Audio applications for Sun/Solaris?

[Francois Dion]

The Ultra 30 can support 16 bit stereo 44KHz. To gain access to that:

/dev/audio is a streaming device and goes both way. SoX can record from 
/dev/audio, and play back by streaming it back to the device (see: man 
audio). It's characteristics are set by /dev/audioctl (possibly other 
ways depending on rev of solaris and is x86 version - like audiocs for 
crystal semi codecs under Solaris 9 x86 etc).

Make sure /dev/audio is there, if you have a sound file, cat it to 
/dev/audio, should play. Then get latest SOX (12.17.4). Do a ./configure 
and it should pick up on the proper sound interface. If you want to use 
Ogg Vorbis, install the vorbis libraries first before you do the 
.configure. Then make ; make install

And you should be set. If you need a GUI front end, there are a few out 
there, let me know if it is of interest.

Francois

Phil Stracchino wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:12:13PM -0700, Wyatt Draggoo wrote:
>  
>
>>>Isn't soundtool (or is it audiotool) able to run without CDE?
>>>Bob
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>>>
>>There's always SoX: http://sox.sourceforge.net/
>>    
>>
>
>Yup, I know SoX well (though my codebase is much outdated; I should
>update), but I want a recorder, not a format frobber.
>
>Perhaps first I should back up a step:  Can anyone tell me the
>capabilities of the audio hardware on a U30?