Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PS3 success with audio

[Robert McGwier]

Eric Blossom wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:15:47PM -0500, Robert McGwier wrote:
> > We definitely have work to do.  Portaudio is the ONLY thing I can get to 
> > work the PS3 sound system but not in gnuradio.
> >
> > The pieces in the bin directory for testing portaudio that open the sink 
> > only work.  I can produce tones,  hundreds of tones,  do latency tests, etc.
> >
> > gr-audio-XXX fails in all cases, including gr-audio-portaudio.
> >
> > I do not believe this is a python issue but I am unsure.  The error 
> > message is a bit strange.
> >
> > If you download the svn for portaudio, and do configure; make; sudo make 
> > install,  it puts the portaudio-2.0.pc in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig 
> > unless you specify another prefix.  Portaudio is working on the ps3 and 
> > the files in bin that begin patest_(produce a sinusoid of some type) 
> > make tones and work.
> >
> > Bob
>
> Given that the Python stuff is still broken on PS3, I'm not surprised
> than gr-audio-* doesn't work.

Just let me say that I am not certain this is a python error but until 
make check works,  I cannot easily rule it out.  Portaudio definitely 
works on the PS3 so we will have audio when we get stuff rolling.

> Eric

Thanks,
Bob



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