On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:43:23 -0500 jjbenham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jeremiah Benham) wrote: > If thats all you want to do you should go to the oss website. They have > this pdf file tutorial on how to write basic programs to record and play > from /dev/dsp. I used the tutorial to write a command line wav file > player for my zaurus. I did not want to use something large like > opie-mediaplayer or mplayer. Sorry, I have to disagree with this advice. The OSS audio sub-system is deprecated. ALSA is the future of audio on Linux. Even writing directly to ALSA is not too wise a move. I would instead suggest writing to either JACK (if your program is for high end audio) or ESD/PolypAudio for a desktop application. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Indeed, I am impressed that Google runs an 8,000 node Linux cluster, 5 data centers, an extensive network, and a rapidly evolving application all with a staff of 12." -- http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/papers/FAAMs_HPTS.doc
