Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Multimedia compression
From: paco_AT_hydrofunk.org
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 02:04:43 EEST
Whoops... forgot the attachment....
sorry,
--Paco
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 paco_AT_rift.hydrofunk.org wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 paco_AT_OhKeePa.Net wrote:
> >
> > Hey... this is fairly new. Somebody hacked XMMS so that it plays SHN
> > files directly. The relevant info is in the text below.
> >
> > Note that you can also do this:
> >
> > paco_AT_hydrofunk.org%> shorten -x <file>.shn - | play -t wav -
> >
> > from the command line to play a SHN without making the intermediate .WAV
> > file. It works fine, but you don't get a nice GUI or the ability to
> > pause, ffwd, or rewind the audio.
>
>
> Just in case anybody out there isn't familiar with perl, I though I'd send
> this email out to help them. Attached is my script for playing SHNs out
> of directories or off of a CD.
>
> To use it, put it in your path somewhere (make sure it's executable!), and
> type:
>
> shnplay /my/shn/file/directory/or/CDROM/path
>
> That's is. It will play each file with a ".shn" extention in that
> directory without making big WAV files as an intermediate step.
>
> SInce the shorten algorithm is so fast, playing SHN files like this only
> uses up about 10% of my CPU. (550MHz Athlon.)
>
> BTW: it's nice to have a topic on this mailing list aside from "how do I
> get this card working" or "is there planned support for this card" and the
> like. Those are all good posts to this list, but we never really have too
> many actual discussions about stuff. We just help each other make the
> boxes make noise.
>
>
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