From: bson@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson) Subject: Re: Is there a .au player for soundcards? Date: 16 Apr 1993 16:03:45
In article <1993Apr15.232230.17181@a.cs.okstate.edu> kennejs@a.cs.okstate.edu (KENNEDY JAMES SCOT) writes:
> How about just using a utility to convert Sun audio files over to a
> format that splay can handle?
I have written such a program for SVR4. It's free software; you're
more than encouraged to port it to Linux. Probably a trivial job. It
can handle all .au formats except IEEE floating-point and PCM-24.
For 8-bit u-law, it defaults to emulating the MC14400 in Sun
workstations. If a value is specified for u (micro) or O, then it
switches to idealized North American u-law. It would be nice if it
could do European u-law, too (hint, hint!).
It can play gzip'ed files (option -z) and can either write .snd
output (optional) or fork-exec a player (default).
If you or anyone else is interested in porting it, send me a note
and I'll mail you the code. I haven't made it publicly available yet.