From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.154]) (2171 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:01:25 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id MAA08314; Thu Aug 24 12:01:03 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA05663 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:01:52 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000824120809.007b8c50@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:08:09 -0500 Subject: Re: Slashdot interview re: vorbis In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.6.32.20000821232155.007cadd0@mail.ufw2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: Why are files I make in linux not playable in windows, shouldn't they be, it can often say not a valid wave file. Or was it a blank .wav that had nothing in it, don't think so. At 05:56 PM 8/24/00 +1000, you wrote: >Hi Brent: > >I see that you've already been given the command to write a WAV file from >MPG123. I might just point out that (A) Not all programs will pipe to >standard output without being asked, and (B) there's vertually no need to >ever pipe to arecord, as you could redirect outjput to a file. For >example: > >mpg123 -s filename.mp3 |arecord -m filename.wav > >would have done what you wanted, since the -s tells it to write to standard >output (stdout). But it's far more efficient to do this: > >mpg123 -s filename.mp3 >filename.wav > >This uses the shell to redirect standard output to a file. You could use >2 greaterthans to append rather than to rewrite. Of course, this is a bad >example since MPG123 will do it itself with -w which I recommend above both >of the above. > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang >ICQ number 43634701 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >