[CM] sound internal format?

[brucembeach at shaw.ca]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 brucembeach at 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.

  Sure. It just looks like two different problems are happening.
  By the way, when a file is loaded into snd is it internally
  stored as a floating point format?

  Bruce