Playing wav file to certain sound card/output

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Hello, I wonder if it's possible to play wav file to certain sound card/output. I can play on preferred output device but don't know how to play on other device within Perl. Thanks in advance, Robert.

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Re: Playing wav file to certain sound card/output by zentara (Cardinal) on Apr 16, 2003 at 14:50 UTC
If you have the time to look thru some docs, you might want to look at SDL . It is cross-platform, and works quite well. Look at the test directory of the SDL-perl module for a wave example. I think SDL is up-and-coming to be the standard multi-media library. It is cross-platform, works under any window manager, and performs well. Here is a sample script to play a wave, there must be a place to select which card to use somewhere down in there. `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use SDL::Mixer; use SDL::Music; $mixer = eval { SDL::Mixer->new(-frequency => 44100, -channels => 2, - +size => 1024); }; $mixer->music_volume(100); $music = new SDL::Music './1bb.ogg' or die $!; #$sound = new SDL::Sound 'z.wav' or die $!; $mixer->play_music($music,5); #0 for single play while(1){ if( $mixer->playing_music() ){sleep(1)}else{ last} }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Playing wav file to certain sound card/output by nothingmuch (Priest) on Apr 16, 2003 at 13:07 UTC
This is a very system specific question. Assumnig you're on some kind of *nix platform i'd suggest using a player and passing it some options, but i've never tried so i can't help. On windows you may have some luck searching in the Win32 namespace on cpan. I hope this points you in the right direction... best of luck! -nuffin zz zZ Z Z #!perl	[reply]