Re: [ecasound] newbie question: problem using stdin as input

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Subject: Re: [ecasound] newbie question: problem using stdin as input
From: Jeremy Hall (jhall@uu.net)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 13:39:11 EEST

You can use any input format ecasound understands for chains, but ecasound
wants raw input on stdin.

I think the stdin bug was squashed in the latest release, if not, try cvs
and recompile.

_J

In the new year, Fred Cummins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to ecasound, so please excuse if the question is redundant.
> Trying to pipe sound to ecasound as follows:
>
> cat out.raw | ecasound -f:16,2,16000 -i:stdin
>
> produces the error message
>
> ERROR: [ECA-FILEIO] : "unable to open file stdin in mode "rb"."
>
> I can't find any hint in the documentation as to what the problem is, or
> what mode "rb" might be. Increasing priority (-r) or altering
> buffersize (-b:2048) don't help matters. Am I missing something simple
> here? I have a binary rpm distribution on a RH6.1 system with OSS
> drivers.
>
> Assuming this can be cleared up, does audio data piped into a chain have
> to be raw format, or are wav or (better) au formats acceptable?
>
> Any help appreciated. Please respond to sender as I do not (yet)
> subscribe.
>
> Regards
>
> fred
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