Re: NEW: x11/nxbelld

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:22:45 +0000
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:

> ok sthen if someone wants to import it.
>
> On 2024/12/09 22:56, izzy Meyer wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 19:25:17 -0500
> > George Koehler <kernigh@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:40:03 -0600
> > > izzy Meyer <izder456@disroot.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > WRT the sndio quirks, the latest commit from this project is 7
> > > > years old, safe to say that it may be dormant, I'll look into
> > > > possibly forking and fixing up sndio support later- cos I too,
> > > > have the same crackling issue on occassion.
> > >
> > > izzy, would you take sthen's changes and mail a new .tar.gz of the
> > > port?S
> >
> > Yep! Sorry, life things happened, and completely forgot I was
> > working on this port. It is attached to this mail.
> >
> > > I found 2 causes for a .wav to make a crackling sound,
> > >
> > > 1. If the .wav has unsigned 8-bit (u8) audio, sndiod(8) has a
> > > bug. See my mail to tech@, "sndiod: unsigned sample 0 is not
> > > silent" https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=173372300424229&w=2
> > >
> > > 2. If the .wav has chunks after its "data" chunk, and you
> > > don't use nxbelld -c, then nxbelld wrongly plays those chunks as
> > > noise.
> > >
> > > My quack.wav has u8 and has a "smpl" chunk after "data", so I
> > > heard both problems. One can work around both problems by using
> > > ffmpeg or sox to write a .wav with signed 16-bit audio; those
> > > tools put "data" at end of file. Example with sox -e signed,
> > >
> > > $ sox in.wav -e si out.wav
> > >
> > > nxbelld -c uses the correct length of the "data" chunk, but
> > > nxbelld without -c continues from "data" to end of file. [...]
> >
> > Interesting, so seems this is a problem with sndio(8) itself and not
> > this software.
> >
> > > Patches would fix it, but I don't want to wait for patches before
> > > OpenBSD imports the port.
> >
> > Agreed, this port is really useful to have.
> >
> > Appreciated-
> >
> > --
> > iz (they/them)
> >
> > > i like to say mundane things,
> > > there are too many uninteresting things
> > > that go unnoticed.
> >
> > izder456 (dot) neocities (dot) org
>

Ping!

It is attached.

--
iz (they/them)

> i like to say mundane things,
> there are too many uninteresting things
> that go unnoticed.

izder456 (dot) neocities (dot) org