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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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Subject: Re: /dev/audio emulation
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On 13 Aug 1998, Matthias Granberry wrote:

> Will alsa do emulation of /dev/audio with the pci sound cards, which do not
> do it natively?  At the moment, I am stuck without realaudio support, which 
> kind of sucks...

Yes, ALSA does conversion from mu-Law samples to standard 8-bit unsigned
samples if hardware doesn't support it.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
Branisovska 31, C. Budejovice, CZ-370 05 Czech Republic


