Subject: Re: [LAU] A simple program to take a WAV file in and play it to JACK?

From: Ken Restivo <ken@...> · Date: Friday, November 23, 2007 - 12:46 am

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:29:58AM +0100, Arnold Krille wrote:

quoted text> Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2007 schrieb Ken Restivo:

> > Yeah, I've kind of asked this before, and I got answers back, but not

> > really.

> > Is there seriously no program that'll take WAV file input, on stdin, making

> > no attempt to "seek" on it, and poot the resulting data out to JACK?

>

> Wav-file input on stdin and no seeking on the incoming stream are exclusive.

> Wav is organized in chunks with headers in between (at least on header at the

> start). That way if you don't do any seeking in the raw-stream or skip the

> headers, you will hear blips on playback.

>

> Why do you need to play the files from stdin?

>

> What speaks against "mplayer -ao jack"?

> 
 wvunpack -o - |  mplayer -ao jack -
 WVUNPACK  Hybrid Lossless Audio Decompressor  Linux Version 4.40.0

 Copyright (c) 1998 - 2006 Conifer Software.  All Rights Reserved.
MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.3-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7600  @ 2.33GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)

CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1

Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

mplayer: could not connect to socket

mplayer: No such file or directory

Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing -.

Reading from stdin...
Exiting... (End of file)

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