From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 15:24:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF5D37B41A for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:24:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([80.4.0.215]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020326232420.NFML278.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:24:20 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2QNOJj15623; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:24:19 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2QNOJa04197; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:24:19 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:24:19 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Mike Meyer Cc: "John M. Fannon" , Gautham Ganapathy , Peter Leftwich , "FreeBSD.org - Questions" Subject: Re: Audio CD without cable Message-ID: <20020326232419.C304@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <014201c1d4a6$bef8a370$1901a8c0@itg.ti.com> <15520.46718.771063.761625@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15520.46718.771063.761625@guru.mired.org>; from mwm-dated-1017597439.016de0@mired.org on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:57:18AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 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 On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:57:18AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > That's not the normal path to *play* a cd. That's the path if you do > what I suggested - esdrec | esdcat). However, the normal path for > playing a CD is through the CDROM's d/a converter, through that - > hopefully shielded - cable, then through the mixer as audio to the > speaker output. I'm pretty sure that the mixer on sound cards mixes > analog signals, not digital ones. Most sound cards these days seem to have digital inputs as well (and most CD/DVD drives have digital audio outputs). It's still an extra cable though. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message