Subject: Re: AC-97 audio
To: Andrew Steven Ball <kb9ylw@cyberspace.org>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/18/2002 01:55:04
Andrew Steven Ball wrote:
> Hello Manuel!
>
> MB> Audio isn't very good, it can only do 48Khz
>
> A curious design decision that. I don't know a lot about
> AC-97, or NetBSD audio, but I have a vague recollection that
> /dev/audio defaults to 8KHz mu-law mono. I don't know
> whether any software depends on those defaults. Is the 48KHz
> stuck in 16-bit linear stereo?
It doesn't really matter that /dev/audio defaults to 8kHz, mulaw.
You can always use /dev/sound. But since that is stuck at 48kHz,
you need to do sample rate conversion with almost any sound
source.
-- Lennart