[CM] Re: sound internal format?

[Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 brucembeach@shaw.ca wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 brucembeach@shaw.ca wrote:
> > > >> I'm using snd7 with jack (Mandrake 10.1 PPC) and when I want to record I
> > > >> get this: ... ...
> > > >> ... ... Illegal instruction (core dumped)
> > > >
> > > > Not sure what the problem is. But recording with jack in snd with
> > > > the recording panel does not work. Just ignore the error messages, I don't
> > > > think they make sense.
> > >
> > >   >> Illegal instruction (core dumped)
> > >
> > >   Looks like the binary was compiled for a more advanced processor
> > >   than the processor doing the execution.
> > >
> >
> > Might be. But recording with jack with the recording panel in snd has
> > never worked.
> 
>  By the way, when a file is loaded into snd is it internally
>  stored as a floating point format?

I'm not the best person to answer this question, but since I'm already
here, I'l try, although its probably wrong... :-)

Files are not loaded into snd completely, but parts of the files are
read from disk when needed. Internally, snd use floating points, unless
it has been configured with --use-double-as-floats (or whatever the 
name of the option was), which in case it will use doubles.
(Hopefully, Bill will correct any errors in the above statement.)


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