Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 02:09:27 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies), multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opti 931 Message-ID: <199709030909.CAA00375@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Sep 1997 08:25:03 %2B0200." <199709030625.IAA07228@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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>From The Desk Of Luigi Rizzo : > Avoid the Soundblaster cards, as far as I know they have some stupid > internal architecture so that full duplex operation requires to use > 8-bit format on one channel and 16-bit format on the other one. This is > painful for the driver to support, and gives much worse quality > anyways. Beside the SB16 are more expensive than the CS4236. The > only reason I have bought one is to be able to test my code on it > (the power of being a standard....) > Great, Luigi, Jim Lowe and I are in perfect agreement! The CS4231 which was also used on the Sparc workstations is a good quality codec and from the report that I have been hearing from Luigi the CS4236 is also a good choice. Cheers, Amancio
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