Why are files I make in linux not playable in windows, shouldn't they be, it can often say not a valid wave file. Or was it a blank .wav that had nothing in it, don't think so. At 05:56 PM 8/24/00 +1000, you wrote: >Hi Brent: > >I see that you've already been given the command to write a WAV file from >MPG123. I might just point out that (A) Not all programs will pipe to >standard output without being asked, and (B) there's vertually no need to >ever pipe to arecord, as you could redirect outjput to a file. For >example: > >mpg123 -s filename.mp3 |arecord -m filename.wav > >would have done what you wanted, since the -s tells it to write to standard >output (stdout). But it's far more efficient to do this: > >mpg123 -s filename.mp3 >filename.wav > >This uses the shell to redirect standard output to a file. You could use >2 greaterthans to append rather than to rewrite. Of course, this is a bad >example since MPG123 will do it itself with -w which I recommend above both >of the above. > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> >ICQ number 43634701 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
