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Re: sound
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Gijs |
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Re: sound |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:20:32 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> From: Gijs <gijs@afake-address.tv>
>> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:56:20 +0100
>>
>> But (for example)
>> Welcome to the Emacs shell
>> ~ $ play file.wav
>>
>> works
>>
>> Why!? Does Emacs handle sound by its own, bypassing the OS?
>I don't know what you meant by ``bypassing the OS''. Emacs uses the
>OS interface to the sound device (ioctl, write, etc. system calls),
>but if you were asking whether it calls the `play' utility internally,
>then no, it doesn't. However, the system calls Emacs issues to play
>the sound are supposed to be the equivalent of what `play' does.
Thanks Eli,
Rephrasing the question, any idea of why this (Debian) emacs won't
play this sound file?
Regards
Gijs
--
Why don't you ever enter any CONTESTS, Marvin?? Don't you know your
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- Sound, Gijs, 2005/02/16
- Re: Sound, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/02/16
- Re: sound,
Gijs <=