Technical data

SunOS 5.5 Devices dbri(7D)
The Sun Microphone is recommended for normal desktop audio recording. Whenthe
Sun Microphone is used in conjunction with the SpeakerBox, the microphone battery is
bypassed. Other audio sources may be recorded by connecting their line output to the
SpeakerBox line input (audio sources may also be connected from their headphone out-
put if the volume is adjusted properly).
ISDN Interfaces The DBRI controller offers two Basic Rate ISDN (BRI) interfaces. One is a BRI Terminal
Equipment (TE) interface and the other is a BRI Network Termination (NT) interface.
The NT connector is switched by a relay so that when system power is not available or
when software is not accessing the NT port, the TE and NT connectors are electrically
connected and devices plugged into the NT port will be on the same BRI passive bus.
Audio Data Formats
for the Multimedia
Codec/SpeakerBox
The dbri device supports the audio formats listed in the following table. When the dev-
ice is open for simultaneous play and record, the input and output data formats must
match.
Supported Audio Data Formats
Sample Rate Encoding Precision Channels
8000 Hz µ-law or A-law 8 1
9600 Hz µ-law or A-law 8 1
11025 Hz µ-law or A-law 8 1
16000 Hz µ-law or A-law 8 1
18900 Hz µ-law or A-law 8 1
22050 Hz µ-law or A-law 8 1
32000 Hz µ-law or A-law 8 1
37800 Hz µ-law or A-law 8 1
44100 Hz µ-law or A-law 8 1
48000 Hz µ-law or A-law 8 1
8000 Hz linear 16 1 or 2
9600 Hz linear 16 1 or 2
11025 Hz linear 16 1 or 2
16000 Hz linear 16 1 or 2
18900 Hz linear 16 1 or 2
22050 Hz linear 16 1 or 2
32000 Hz linear 16 1 or 2
37800 Hz linear 16 1 or 2
44100 Hz linear 16 1 or 2
48000 Hz linear 16 1 or 2
Audio Data Formats
for BRI Interfeces
ISDN channels implement a subset of audio semantics. The preferred ioctls for querying
or setting the format of a BRI channel are ISDN_GET_FORMAT, ISDN_SET_FORMAT, and
ISDN_SET_CHANNEL. In particular, there is no audio format described in audio(7I) that
covers HDLC or transparent data. The dbri driver maps HDLC and transparent data to
AUDIO_ENCODING_NONE. ISDN D-channelsare always configured for HDLC encoding
of data. The programmer should interpret an encoding value of
AUDIO_ENCODING_NONE as an indication that the fd is not being used to transfer audio
data.
modified 27 Feb 1995 7D-73