esound for PPC

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Eric Dorland wrote:

> 
> 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.

What happens is either audiofile or esound is doing byte swapping it
doesn't need to.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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