Date: 26 Mar 2002 10:20:34 -0600 From: James McNaughton <jtm63@enteract.com> To: "Gautham Ganapathy" <gauthamg123list@myrealbox.com> Cc: "Peter Leftwich" <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, "FreeBSD.org - Questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Audio CD without cable Message-ID: <86zo0vjo6l.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> In-Reply-To: <014201c1d4a6$bef8a370$1901a8c0@itg.ti.com> References: <20020326011313.U7437-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <014201c1d4a6$bef8a370$1901a8c0@itg.ti.com>
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"Gautham Ganapathy" <gauthamg123list@myrealbox.com> writes: > the problem is that there is no actual cable. the only connection between > the sound card and the cdrom is through the motherboard. soundcard to m/b > through the PCI slot and m/b to cdrom through the ide connector. i am not > sure exactly how it is done, unless windows is somehow reading the bits on > the audio cd and sending it to the soundcard > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Leftwich" <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> > To: "Gautham Ganapathy" <gauthamg123list@myrealbox.com> > Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:44 AM > Subject: Re: Audio CD without cable > > > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > > > Hi - How can I play audio cds without having the cable that connects the > cd-drive to the sound card ? I am able to do this using Windows Media Player > in Windows by using an option called Digital Audio. I'd like to know how i > can do this in FreeBSD. > > > Regards > > > Gautham > > It sounds like what you want is to read the DA from the CD, convert it to a format that can be played through your sound card, and then send the result to the sound card. There are a number of tools in the ports tree for audio processing and you may have to chain some together to get your desired result. audio/cdrtools has cdda2wav included which is a tool to do that. Ther may be others. Look over the website and see what fits your hardware. Good luck Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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