The audiodev Module

(Unix only) The audiodev module provides sound playing support for Sun and SGI computers. Example 9-8 demonstrates this module.

Example 9-8. Using the audiodev Module

File: audiodev-example-1.py import audiodev import aifc sound = aifc.open("samples/sample.aiff", "r") player = audiodev.AudioDev() player.setoutrate(sound.getframerate()) player.setsampwidth(sound.getsampwidth()) player.setnchannels(sound.getnchannels()) bytes_per_frame = sound.getsampwidth() * sound.getnchannels() bytes_per_second = sound.getframerate() * bytes_per_frame while 1: data = sound.readframes(bytes_per_second) if not data: break player.writeframes(data) player.wait()