Tzafrir Cohen writes: > In the worst case, convert it to a wav file: > > sox -r8000 -u -c1 -8 streamfile file.wav
That definitely does work. Thanks. It turned out I was reading the wrong part of the man page so searches for what one might think works turned up nothing. It turns out that the following will directly play the file: mplayer -quiet -rawaudio samplesize=1:channels=1:rate=8000 -demuxer rawaudio \ /tmp/rawaudio.tmp I did discover an interesting little bug that is either a misunderstanding on my part or an off-by-one situation. If you listen to the dump with headphones or a good pair of speakers, you can hear a rhythmic throbbing effect with a rate of about 1 throb per second. It reminds me of the effect you get when the tape guides on a tape machine are allowing the tape to scue a little so the movement over the head is not perfectly horizontal. You almost don't notice it but it is there at times and somewhat annoying. It made me wonder if the codec was feeding audio that was being sampled a little faster than it should be. I changed the sample rate to 8001 and the throb effect doubled in speed, telling me that this was the problem but I had gone in the wrong direction. At 7999, the throb is totally gone and the effect is the same as what you get if you cat a raw audio file directly to /dev/dsp. For all I know, it might not even show up on another computer with a different sound card and possibly a different time base. I tried it on a computer I use at work that has a SBLive sound card and I think I did still hear the slight throb effect. I have since subscribed to the mplayer list and will post this same description to see if somebody else can shed some light/sound knowledge as to why the slight timing problem. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org