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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!globalip.ch!imp.ch!sunqbc.risq.net!news1.bellglobal.com!sympatico.ca!news From: gbuchanan@localhost.on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: "Voxware" for FreeBSD v2.1.x Date: 16 Nov 1996 23:35:31 GMT Organization: Sympatico Lines: 26 Sender: gardner@localhost.on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan) Message-ID: <56lj43$13f@news1> References: <3288D701.41C67EA6@jnet.vi> <56gc50$55p@news1> <328C9FA2.167EB0E7@jnet.vi> Reply-To: gbuchanan@sympatico.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp1853.on.sympatico.ca X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In article <328C9FA2.167EB0E7@jnet.vi>, John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> writes: >> >> >I am certain there are users out there with RealAudio; where can I get >> >"any" suitable version of VoxWare? >> >> I have installed the raplayer and have had good results. Assuming you >> installed the kernel sources, you already have the necessary "VoxWare" > >You are dead right. I have all that in there, my problem was I was running the >NAS server "auvoxware" that prevented RealAudio from using the /dev/sndstat >device. Killing "auvoxware" allowed RealAudio to work. Now I have to find an >alternative to NAS as a "viewer" for wav, au, and snd files (sigh). > I should have mentioned that part too. I spent a couple of hours pissing around with AUDIOSERVER env. var. settings before finally discovering that raplayer wanted to talk directly to the device by doing a "strings" on the executable. Killed the "auvoxware" server and bingo. It's too bad raplayer doesn't talk to the server. If you find a nice suite of audio tools to replace the NAS ones, post. -gardner