Hi, Charles: Thanks for the details about mailcap. Would you mind sharing yours--or at least the relevant sections? I'm wondering about the appropriate syntax. As I said yesterday, I have mailed myself both a .wav and a .mp3 file via a couple of my email accounts. Mine have arrived back properly identified--when I select view in Pine 4.21, they file type is correctly identified. So, I'm at a loss of what to suggest for you and why yours aren't coming back properly tagged. As for myself, my setup is a mixed bag of alsa and oss. Kirk helped me identify that my Ensoniq 1370 is physically damaged at its inputs. I have yet to replace it. It's audio outputs are working fine for me--but I haven't made the associations in mailcap yet. On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Janina - > I am using an AWE64 sound card with the ALSA drivers, the older version > 4.1, which comes with the utilities "arecord" and "aplay" to create and > display a variety of sound file formats such as .wav, .au, and the like > (but not of course .mp3 or .mid). The key is to describe the standard > mime types in a .mime.types file or a mime.types file, then to specify in > .mailcap or mailcap what command to execute when such a file type is > encountered. My mailcap file specifies to use aplay for the .wav files, > mpg123 for .mp3 files, and trplayer for some others. > > If you had been using pine 4.10 you would have noticed that yhour audio > files would appear to be sent okay, but when they reached the recipient > the mime type would have been "application/octet-stream" instead of what > you intended. The files would be intact, but the recipient's software > would not know how to handle them. > > There is a cute little program called "talksender" which allows Windows > users to send and receive voice messages by email, which prepares a low > fidelity .mp3 file of the voice. It requires only 2kb per second of voice, > which is its advantage. It does not of course run in a Linux environment, > so I have been putting together equivalent capability here with the > available open source packages (for the most part). The best I have been > able to do is get an mp3 file down to 4kb per second, which is not bad, > and has distinctly better quality than talksender. > > Chuck. > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it > doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on. > -- Hepler, Systems Design 182 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net
