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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Brian L Scipioni <brian@gaugetheory.org>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	"H.Haines Brown" <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>,
	alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net,
	alsa-devel <alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: file.wav -> dsp issue
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 16:04:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5h653mnjpn.wl@alsa2.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101913012.13435.37.camel@radium.gaugetheory.org>

At Wed, 01 Dec 2004 09:56:52 -0500,
Brian L Scipioni wrote:
> 
> I have this problem too - but probably others causing it.
> 
> aplay -D spdif /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav works fine.
> 
> aplay -D /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav gives the following error:
> 
> ALSA lib pcm.c:1975:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
> aplay: main:508: audio open error: No such file or directory

-D option requires an argument.  In the second case, you didn't pass
it so the wav file name is parsed as the device name.

> cat /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav > /dev/dsp
> makes no sound and hangs for 55 seconds on this 2.5 second sample.

Most likely the device is simply blocked by others.
This behavior was changed recently to be non-blocking mode, BTW.


Takashi


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-01 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20041130180410.D498B187F@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>
     [not found] ` <1101839935.10162.1.camel@krustophenia.net>
     [not found]   ` <20041130200556.9A346188C@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>
2004-11-30 21:02     ` file.wav -> dsp issue Lee Revell
2004-12-01 10:55       ` [Alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2004-12-01 14:56       ` [Alsa-user] " Brian L Scipioni
2004-12-01 15:04         ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2004-12-01 17:58           ` [Alsa-devel] " Brian L Scipioni

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