On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Dragon_at_work wrote: > On Monday 09 February 2004 02:57, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > system - when a program asks for 1 second it can be a tick or two > > of the clock off. > I was afraid of that....
UNIX 101 - sleep(1) is not guaranteed to be exactly 1 second :) > > dd if=/dev/zero of=1sec-silence.pcm bs=17600 count=10 > Great! This worked perfectly! > Thanks for your keen insight and speedy help! My insight's ok and you're welcome for the help, but my arithmetic skills have fallen into disrepair... 44100 * 2 * 2 = 176400 and not 176000 Thus the command above should have been "bs=17640" and not 17600. You can go to .01 sec accuracy with a block size of 1764 bytes if desired. Cheers, Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users