Re: Audio, Soundbylayout: how to use it at 24 bits/96 KHz

2009-08-16 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Just guessing : for mplayer, I know there is the -srate parameter that can set a forced sampling rate for your sound card. Maybe it will work, but the s24le to s16le conversion looks strange too ... Regards, benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Audio, Soundbylayout: how to use it at 24 bits/96 KHz

2009-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:16:21AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > I found and installed/edited an old ~/.aoundrc file. You find it > attached to this email. Forgot it. It's attached now. Sorry. Wolfgang -- http://heelsbroke.wordpress.com #pcm.rate_convert { #type plug #slave { #

Re: Audio, Soundbylayout: how to use it at 24 bits/96 KHz

2009-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 03:53:20PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi All > > PowerBook5,8 here. > > I want to play a sound file that is coded to 24 bits/96000 Hz at > exactly these sample rates. > > $ file 24-96-sound.wav > 24-96-sound.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft P

Re: Need to wipe/erase hard drive of iBook G4

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Rooney
Dear Jason, Are you wanting to guarantee that all previous data is unrecoverable, or are you just wanting to install debian? The debian powerpc installer has an 'expert' mode available. You could run through the installer up to the point where you have detected your hard drive, then execute

Need to wipe/erase hard drive of iBook G4

2009-08-16 Thread Jason Hsu
I'm part of a group called Project Phoenix (open source blood pressure monitor), and I'm trying to get us to use Linux rather than Windows. The laptop we're using for Linux is an iBook G4. I didn't realize until now that the Linux world has limited support for the Mac/Apple/PowerPC computer. S

Audio, Soundbylayout: how to use it at 24 bits/96 KHz

2009-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi All PowerBook5,8 here. I want to play a sound file that is coded to 24 bits/96000 Hz at exactly these sample rates. $ file 24-96-sound.wav 24-96-sound.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 24 bit, stereo 96000 Hz Apple says the soundcard I have is able to do 16 or 24

powerpc port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-16 Thread Marc Brockschmidt
Heya, As announced on dda [RT1], we want to get an impression when releasing Squeeze is feasible. We have proposed a (quite ambitious) freeze in December 2009, and some developers have noted that their planned changes wouldn't be possible in this time frame. So, to find out when releasing would wo