[pkg-mad-maintainers] Bug#425112: Bug#425112: Bug#425112: Bug#425112: madplay on sgi mips64 big endian

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 01:48:16PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 01:18:08PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > Is your machine littlendian?  Has anyone else had experience using
> > > madplay in a littleendian archs?   
> > 
> > I think everybody has expierence using it on little endian hosts, like
> > i386 and amd64.
> 
> I just got this on IRC:
> <dondelelcaro> Q_: it works fine on PPC

So I've been debugging this a little.

It seems that madplay was sending the samples to the kernel in little
endian format while things like creating an raw file properly created a
big endian file.  Just rebuilding the package made it play, but half the
speed.


Kurt