In article <3C0805FE.74A968AB@concentric.net>, Bob Washburne <rcwash@concentric.net> wrote: >Managed mode got me past this screen. It then propted me for the >save-file name and that appeared to work. > >I then ran the analysis on the WAV file. That appeared to work (19,256 >clicks detected), but when I told it to REPAIR the magic failed. What >should have taken over a minute happened instantly. I then said to >repair HISS. That normally takes over 10 minutes but again it was >instant. I closed up and found that the save file was only 44 bytes >long, enough for the WAV header, but none of the data had been written >out. GM has no SAVE option as it is all supposed to happen automaticly. > >Next I will try the experiment suggested by the other poster. I've run into problems very similar to this, using recent versions of WINE with Diamond Cut's DC-ART audio-cleanup application. This app used to work, with older releases of WINE, but has stopped doing so. I poked into the problem a bit, and concluded that there's a problem in the multimedia-buffer management code. If I recall correctly (and it's been a while since I investigated this code in depth), DC-ART opens a multimedia .WAV file in update mode, and then uses the MM access calls which deliver buffers full of data. It walks through each buffer, makes the changes it wants, marks the buffer "dirty", and then says "Advance to next buffer, please." What's supposed to happen (IIRC) is that the MM layer notes the fact that the buffer has been marked as dirty / modified, writes it back out to the .WAV file, and then reads in the next buffer's worth of data. This _used_ to be what happened. In the current WINE releases (for the last few months) the dirty buffers are not being written back to the file. I don't know just when the change occurred, but apparently something in the 16-bit MM code is broken. The same problem appears to occur when trying to append newly-generated buffers to a .WAV file. They aren't being appended. -- Dave Platt dplatt@radagast.org Visit the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior/ I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!
