Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:51:29 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m?= <bkhl@elektrubadur.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another sound question. Message-ID: <417794B1.5030304@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <87vfd4hpxi.fsf@lucien.dreaming> References: <41765B2C.5020306@psu.edu> <417660DD.30505@nbritton.org> <87d5zdiht1.fsf@lucien.dreaming> <4176FFCF.9050200@nbritton.org> <87vfd4hpxi.fsf@lucien.dreaming>
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Björn Lindström wrote: >Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> writes: > > > >>Yea kind, The sound card still has to convert the pcm data from the CD >>into music and output it to the speakers though, >> >> > >No, the CD-ROM does that and sends it to the sound card as a plain old >analog audio signal, so the only part of the sound card that comes into >play is the mixer. > > > Actually yea now that I've had time to think about it, the cable that goes from the CD-Rom to the sound card is usually a 3 or 4 wire cable, like you see in head phones, so based on that fact it has to be analog already. What about the ones that have 2-pin digital audio out and what about direct digital playback (i.g. ripping)? The point is still mute though, you have to have at least a semi-functional sound card to get the mixer working.
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