Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:06:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: stephan0h@telering.at cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Sound support in Cygwin? In-Reply-To: <1065796345.3f86c2f9d5657@webmail.telering.at> Message-ID: References: <1065796345.3f86c2f9d5657@webmail.telering.at> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 stephan0h@telering.at wrote: > Hi, > > I want to port a program to cygwin that writes to /dev/dsp. So far I > have not found any soundsupport in cygwin. Is there any such thing? > > br, > stephan /dev/dsp is supposed to be working, but the format of the data is completely different from what you'd find on Unix. The Windows DSP accepts Wave files (.wav) as the raw data. You can try "cat /cygdrive/c/WINNT/Media/tada.wav > /dev/dsp" to see if it works on your machine. If your Unix program generates the data it writes to /dev/dsp, substantial parts of it may need to be rewritten. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/