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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> mplayer does not seem to write to the audiodump.wav file made with 
> mkfifo (which is not busybox).

It is critical to understand that FIFOs are not ordinary files. They
do not grow more than a few K (and that may not even be detectable
by ls). Nothing happens to them unless things are both reading from
and writing to them.

> > This should work with either version.
> 
> Not on my PI, which won't work with the first version.

I meant that even if you have a PII and are using the first version,
you can still use the -ao pcm methods.

> I will try on a PII some time soon.  Or maybe get the SW81 bare.i 
> and all the sound kernels to match and try that some time.  I hope 
> you get your compiler fixed soon.  I messed mine up really 
> thoroughly one time and had to reinstall linux, when I mixed glibc 
> versions (older full library, newer so library).

David
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