Re: Conversion from S16 format to ALAW

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:59:05 +0100,
Manu Sharma wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to sample and play alaw streams on my iPAQ 5500. The HW 
> driver registers support for S16_LE only. So, to achieve my purpose, I 
> register a plugin like following in my alsa.conf file:
> 
> pcm.alaw {
> 	type alaw
> 	slave {
> 		pcm  "hw:0.0"

Typo of "0,0"?

> 		format S16_LE
> 	}
> }
> 
> With this, when I use arecord to capture sound, I get an error "arecord: 
> set_params:832: Sample format not available".
> 
> Is there something wrong in my configuration setup or am I missing 
> something ? Any clues or suggestions would be appreciated.

I didn't get the error message.

	% arecord -Dalaw -traw -fA_LAW -c2 -r44100 foo.raw


Takashi


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