Hi everyone.
Has anyone else had problems with piping into audioplay under DU 4.0B (with
patch kit 4 installed)? We have recently purchased new machines and
some of our scripts piped pcm directly into stdin of audioplay. These
worked under DU 3.2D, however we now get a "PARSE ERROR" from audioplay
under DU 4.0B. Basically the problem appears to be a bug in the
audioplay supplied with DU 4.0B, thought the problem may be with
patch kit 4. The command
"audioplay -filename dog-howl.wav" works, but the command
"cat dog-howl.wav | audioplay -filename -" does not. Does anyone know
of a patch available for this? (An example of the error is shown
below.) I have digital on the problem now but they aren't particularly
quick about it so I thought I'd try here also. :-)
Paul
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pct : lister> cat dog-howl.wav | audioplay -filename -
PARSE ERROR: Missing value -filename -
usage: audioplay -filename filename [-device #] [-channels #] [-bitspersample #] [-rate #] [-encoding format] [-numbuffers #] [-sizebuffers #] [-msbuffers #] [-verbose] [-help]
-filename audio file to play [tempfile.wav]
-device output device number [search all]
-channels number of channels (1=mono; 2=stereo) [1]
-bitspersample bits per sample [8]
-rate samples per second [8000]
-encoding audio encoding format [mulaw]
Where valid value is one of:
mulaw = mulaw format
pcm = PCM format
adpcm = ADPCM format (IMA)
-numbuffers number of buffers [4]
-sizebuffers buffer size in bytes [size dependent on msbuffers value]
-msbuffers buffer size in milliseconds [250]
-verbose print various status messages
-help display help information and exit
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