sox - package is broken

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  9 21:37, Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> yes, /dev/dsp seems to be broken.
> short wav-files are silent, long ones (> 2sec) are ok (hearable).
> 
> Alexander
> 
> ------------------
> On 26/02/2014 22:38, Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge wrote:
> 
>     1st sox problem:
>     in Cygwin 1.7.28 sound is broken. (sox + play)
>     I followed all hints as reply to my first post last week.
> 
>     $ play blip.wav
>     blip.wav:
>       File Size: 1.33k     Bit Rate: 94.4k
>        Encoding: Unsigned PCM
>        Channels: 1 @ 8-bit
>     Samplerate: 11025Hz
>     Replaygain: off
>        Duration: 00:00:00.11
>     In:100%  00:00:00.11 [00:00:00.00] Out:1.25k [======|======]       
> Clip:0
>     Done.
>     ==> BUT I DONT HEAR ANYTHING, but same file works with other windows
>     players (==> soundcard + driver + speaker = ok).
> 
> I've been able to reproduce this using very short wav files (less than 2
> seconds in duration); if I use a longer file then it seems to work OK.
> Please could you try again with a longer wav file and report how you get
> on.
> 
> This may be a Cygwin problem (rather than an issue with sox itself), as
> piping the wav file to /dev/dsp has the same result, i.e. short wav files
> are not heard.

Does anybody feel up to the task to debug this issue in the Cygwin DLL?
The DSP code is practically only in a single file called fhandler_dsp.cc.

Maybe it's something obvious for somebody knowing how this works on
Windows.


Corinna

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