Sound File Formats

The sound player uses the SGI's Silicon Graphics Audio File Library (AF) to read the audio files. Therefore all file formats supported by the AF can be used with the GuineaPig system. The list of supported formats include: AIFF-C, AIFF, SND/AU, WAVE, MPEG1, etc. See the manual page of 'afIntro' for the list of supported formats and more information about the formats. The sound player currently doesn't support headerless raw data files.

The preferred file formats are uncompressed AIFF and AIFF-C. Conversion from and to other formats can be done, for example, with mediaconvert, dmconvert and sfconvert.

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