From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 8:20:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (smtp-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA9537B419 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:20:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from jamestown.21stcentury.net (24-148-18-101.na.21stcentury.net [24.148.18.101]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE7E9946; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:20:35 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jtm@localhost) by jamestown.21stcentury.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2QGKZx26209; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:20:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jtm63@enteract.com) X-Authentication-Warning: jamestown.21stcentury.net: jtm set sender to jtm63@enteract.com using -f To: "Gautham Ganapathy" Cc: "Peter Leftwich" , "FreeBSD.org - Questions" Subject: Re: Audio CD without cable References: <20020326011313.U7437-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <014201c1d4a6$bef8a370$1901a8c0@itg.ti.com> From: James McNaughton Date: 26 Mar 2002 10:20:34 -0600 In-Reply-To: <014201c1d4a6$bef8a370$1901a8c0@itg.ti.com> Message-ID: <86zo0vjo6l.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Gautham Ganapathy" 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" > To: "Gautham Ganapathy" > Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" > 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