On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Charles G Waldman wrote:
> > 3. Play some raw audio data, given a string of bytes and a
> > sampling rate.
>
> This would never be possible unless you also specifed the format and
> encoding of the raw data - are they 8bit, 16-bit, signed, unsigned,
> bigendian, littlendian, linear, logarithmic ("mu_law"), etc?
You're right, you do have to specify such things. But when you
do, i'm quite confident that this should be possible, at least
for a variety of common cases. Certainly raw audio data should
be playable in at least *some* fashion, and we also have a bunch
of very nice functions in the audioop module that can do automatic
conversions if we want to get fancy.
> Trying to do anything with sound in a
> platform-independent manner is near-impossible. Even the same
> "platform" (e.g. RedHat 6.2 on Intel) will behave differently
> depending on what soundcard is installed.
Are you talking about OSS vs. ALSA? Didn't they at least try to
keep some of the basic parts of the interface the same?
-- ?!ng
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