From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 15 09:23:37 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D7D106566B for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:23:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3D88FC14 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:23:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.starpoint.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id LAA07068; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:08:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.starpoint.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1RmM4P-000Oga-HQ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:08:09 +0200 Message-ID: <4F129776.8050406@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:08:06 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <4F0DE3FD.2020203@FreeBSD.org> <20120112115220.1c32b3e2@ernst.jennejohn.org> <4F0EC17B.8040908@FreeBSD.org> <20120114212553.GA18574@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4F11FEE6.8060006@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F11FEE6.8060006@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Motin , FreeBSD current , Steve Kargl Subject: Re: [RFT] Major snd_hda rewrite X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:23:37 -0000 on 15/01/2012 00:17 Doug Barton said the following: > On 01/14/2012 13:25, Steve Kargl wrote: >> Remove dvd insert music cd in drive, 'cdcontrol play'. The >> drive is reading the cd and 'cdcontrol status' indicates >> that it is playing. No sound. > > The way that this was explained to me (and I'm certainly no expert) is > that in the ATA-CAM world the only way the access method used by > cdcontrol will be able to play the music is if there is a direct (wired) > connection from the cd player to the sound card, like we had back in the > 80's. :) Other tools (such as vlc, mplayer, etc.) use the cdda:// > method of access, which does not rely on the wire. > > (As I understand it) this also explains why dvds work, but cds don't. Just a note: this has nothing to do with ATA-CAM. It has always been the case for cdcontrol play. -- Andriy Gapon