Audio format coversion

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, rufous_swanson wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
> > It turns out that mplayer itself can do the conversion.  The .wav file
> > sounds fine played back from the hard disk, but I have problems
> > burning to a CD.  The burn seems to be fine.  The CD is detected as an
> > audio CD and the track starts playing, but all I hear is beeps and
> > bleeps.  I tried both normal and byte-swapped burns using xcdroast.
> >
>
> I had this exact same problem and tried all of these things too.  You
> are totally on the right track. mplayer is working fine, the problem is
> with the kernel == kernel-smp-2.6.8-1.521.  As I was burning the audio
> CD I was having the massive memory consumption problems like some other
> people have reported here.  The other day someone posted three different
> links to bugzilla, I can't remember what the subject of the post was.
>
> I upgraded from this kernel to one from rawhide.  Even booting an
> earlier kernel may fix the problem.

OK Haven't had a chance to try an earlier kernel.  I did look at the
Fedora development kernel, but there is no kernel-sourcecode RPM for it,
so I can't compile some kernel modules that I need to run it, so I haven't
tried it yet.

I did get the CD cut on a machine with the same kernel and a SCSI CD/RW.
It works fine, except that xcdroast goes into an infinite loop of errors
after fixating and freezes the machine so I have to reboot.  Once I figure
out if that's a kernel problem or an xcdroast problem, I'll look at
Bugzilla for that too.

Thanks.

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs