Sound under windows

ruby-talk
1

hello,
what is the good way for output simple sounds with Ruby under windows ?
I looked in the RAA but it seems to be only libs for linux
thx,
jf

2

You might want to look at VRuby.
There exists one demo called mediatest. That might
just be what you want.

Alternatively using the OLE-stuff you might be able
to control an external Windows-program.

Bye,
-A.

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Am Samstag, 9. November 2002 12:48 schrieb MENON Jean-Francois:

hello,
what is the good way for output simple sounds with Ruby under windows ?
I looked in the RAA but it seems to be only libs for linux
thx,
jf

Armin Roehrl, http://www.approximity.com
Training, Development and Mentoring
OOP, XP, Java, Ruby, Smalltalk, .Net, Datamining, Parallel computing,
Webservices

How could you do all that?
I did not know it was hard.
–??

3

here is the link:
http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/~nyasu/vruby/samples-e.html
search for mp3, wav, or avi.

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Am Samstag, 9. November 2002 12:48 schrieb MENON Jean-Francois:

hello,
what is the good way for output simple sounds with Ruby under windows ?
I looked in the RAA but it seems to be only libs for linux
thx,
jf
–
-A.

Armin Roehrl, http://www.approximity.com
Training, Development and Mentoring
OOP, XP, Java, Ruby, Smalltalk, .Net, Datamining, Parallel computing,
Webservices

How could you do all that?
I did not know it was hard.
–??

4

Hi,

hello,
what is the good way for output simple sounds with Ruby under windows ?
I looked in the RAA but it seems to be only libs for linux

One way is to use Win32API:

SND_MEMORY = 0x00000004 # from “mmsystem.h”
SND_FILENAME = 0x00020000

PlaySound = Win32API.new(“winmm”, “PlaySound”, [‘P’, ‘L’, ‘L’], ‘I’)

play from file:

PlaySound.call(“C:/your/sound.wav”, 0, SND_FILENAME)

play from memory:

wav = File.open(“C:/your/sound.wav”, File::RDONLY) {|f| f.binmode; f.read }
PlaySound.call(wav, 0, SND_MEMORY)

HTH,

Bill

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From: “MENON Jean-Francois” jean-francois.menon@meteo.fr

5

Bill Kelly wrote:

Hi,

From: “MENON Jean-Francois” jean-francois.menon@meteo.fr

hello,
what is the good way for output simple sounds with Ruby under windows ?
I looked in the RAA but it seems to be only libs for linux

One way is to use Win32API:

SND_MEMORY = 0x00000004 # from “mmsystem.h”
SND_FILENAME = 0x00020000

PlaySound = Win32API.new(“winmm”, “PlaySound”, [‘P’, ‘L’, ‘L’], ‘I’)

play from file:

PlaySound.call(“C:/your/sound.wav”, 0, SND_FILENAME)

play from memory:

wav = File.open(“C:/your/sound.wav”, File::RDONLY) {|f| f.binmode; f.read }
PlaySound.call(wav, 0, SND_MEMORY)

HTH,

Bill

thank you very much :->
I don’t know if it is planned for future releases of Ruby, but I think
it would be good to have a standard (platform independent) way to play
wav files with ruby.

regards,
jf