16.1 Built-in Module sunaudiodev

 

This module allows you to access the sun audio interface. The sun audio hardware is capable of recording and playing back audio data in u-LAW  format with a sample rate of 8K per second. A full description can be found in the audio(7I) manual page.

The module defines the following variables and functions:

error

This exception is raised on all errors. The argument is a string describing what went wrong.

open (mode)

This function opens the audio device and returns a sun audio device object. This object can then be used to do I/O on. The mode parameter is one of 'r' for record-only access, 'w' for play-only access, 'rw' for both and 'control' for access to the control device. Since only one process is allowed to have the recorder or player open at the same time it is a good idea to open the device only for the activity needed. See audio(7I) for details.