esound for PPC

[Eric Dorland]

On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 12:03:24AM -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Eric Dorland wrote:
> 
> > With some of the talk changing some of sound driver code, is anyone
> > working on esound for the PPC. It seems some progress has been made
> > with 0.2.12, which manages to play some wav files on my machine
> > (G3/266 DT), but plays garbage for others. Has anyone else seen this
> > problem, or have gotten esound working properly?
> 
> Could you check if there is a correlation between the bit depth of the
> sound file and the playing-of-garbage-noises? This problem sounds like an
> audiofile bug.

It appears you're right. All the sounds that have trouble playing are 16bit
44kHz wavs. The weird thing is that if I start esd and use esdplay, all the
sounds play properly. However the 16bit sounds don't appear to be going
through esd because I don't get my prompt back until the sound is done
playing, while the 8bit sounds are played asynchronously.

> Also, if people would please try out GNOME 1.0.50 this weekend and find
> any PPC-specific problems ASAP, it'd be much appreciated.

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