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Re: play-sound: Unsupported WAV file format


From: weber
Subject: Re: play-sound: Unsupported WAV file format
Date: 14 Feb 2007 12:39:57 -0800
User-agent: G2/1.0

On 14 fev, 13:51, Gijs Hillenius <g...@invalid.nl> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Me and my sounds files...  I use emacs-snapshot (Debian) and at
> play-sound-file some sound files (wav) the CPU starts racing.  If I
> manage to C-g the wav file that start to race, emacs becomes extremely
> sluggish... Or, the CPU usages jumps to 50 %, at which point I kill
> the entire emacs..and undesired state. I tried converting the
> original wav file to ogg and back to wav with sox
>
> -rw-r--r-- 23072  ni-newversion.wav
> -rw-r--r--  5549  ni-broken.ogg
> -rw-r--r-- 11558  ni-broken.wav
>
> but the racing CPU remains.
>
> At some others I get play-sound: Unsupported WAV file format. Which
> seems an undocumented feature.
>
> Any idea how to debug this?
>
> I use alsa 0.99.76-9
>
> The Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G
>
> Hints welcome. Thx
>
> Gijs
> --
> I'm always looking for a new idea that will be more productive than
> its cost.  -- David Rockefeller

If you don't manage to fix that, you can always just do a shell-
command and let linux play directly.
Cheers,
weber



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