| Michael Baldwin Bruce 2004-11-03, 8:56 am |
| bruce aka tholen@antispam.ham wrote in message news:<35Lhd.56735$Kl3.52139@twister.socal.rr.com>...
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> Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the problem on demand, so I have to
> rely on memory for the error message, but it was something like
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> Well, that seems consistent with one occasion in which I was repeatedly
> playing a very short audio clip, pressing the key to repeat the play
> very rapidly, such that it seems possible the system started up the next
> PLAY before completely cleaning up after the previous PLAY.
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> I'm not sure under what conditions my audio subsystem supports the
> simultaneous playing of two audio streams. I'm using the SoundMax
> audio built in to the Intel 850 motherboard (ADI 1885). I know that
> if I'm playing a .wav file, then fire up Mahjongg, it complains about
> the device being busy, even though I've disabled sounds in Mahjongg.
maybe its complaining becuse you added it to one of your lits to
teach it a lesson, kook.
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> On the other hand, the driver came with WarpMix, so it looks like it
> should be able to mix at least a few audio sources.
you mean like Barnes, kook?
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> Sufficiently odd that I never use the default (other than to
> investigate it), which means I always have to use the TIMEFMT keyword,
> which is a bit annoying. On the other hand, my editing program works
> with the audio samples in memory, so to play an edited clip using
> PLAY.CMD, I need to write it to disk, so as long as I write just the
> clip I want to hear, I don't have to bother with the FROM, TO, and
> TIMEFMT keywords. Would be nicer to simply play a clip of audio
> samples directly from memory and thus avoid hitting the disk every
> time I want to repeat a short clip, but then I'd have to learn an
> entirely new part of the multimedia system. One of the editing
> tools plays a short clip whose end points I can move in 0.01 sec
> increments using the cursor keys; it has to write a new .wav file
> every time I press the key so as to utilize PLAY.CMD.
wow! you are a kook, bruce.
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