[LAU] A simple program to take a WAV file in and play it to JACK?

[Ken Restivo]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:29:58AM +0100, Arnold Krille wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2007 schrieb Ken Restivo:
> > Yeah, I've kind of asked this before, and I got answers back, but not
> > really.
> > Is there seriously no program that'll take WAV file input, on stdin, making
> > no attempt to "seek" on it, and poot the resulting data out to JACK?
> 
> Wav-file input on stdin and no seeking on the incoming stream are exclusive. 
> Wav is organized in chunks with headers in between (at least on header at the 
> start). That way if you don't do any seeking in the raw-stream or skip the 
> headers, you will hear blips on playback.
> 
> Why do you need to play the files from stdin?
> 
> What speaks against "mplayer -ao jack"?
> 


 wvunpack -o - |  mplayer -ao jack -

 WVUNPACK  Hybrid Lossless Audio Decompressor  Linux Version 4.40.0
 Copyright (c) 1998 - 2006 Conifer Software.  All Rights Reserved.

MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.3-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7600  @ 2.33GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing -.
Reading from stdin...


Exiting... (End of file)