From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 10:51:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0EB416A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:51:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FE843D45 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:51:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from nbritton.org (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with SMTP id <20041021105130i91008iepfe>; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:51:35 +0000 Message-ID: <417794B1.5030304@nbritton.org> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:51:29 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m?= , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41765B2C.5020306@psu.edu> <417660DD.30505@nbritton.org> <87d5zdiht1.fsf@lucien.dreaming> <4176FFCF.9050200@nbritton.org> <87vfd4hpxi.fsf@lucien.dreaming> In-Reply-To: <87vfd4hpxi.fsf@lucien.dreaming> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Another sound question. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:51:36 -0000 Björn Lindström wrote: >Nikolas Britton writes: > > > >>Yea kind, The sound card still has to convert the pcm data from the CD >>into music and output it to the speakers though, >> >> > >No, the CD-ROM does that and sends it to the sound card as a plain old >analog audio signal, so the only part of the sound card that comes into >play is the mixer. > > > Actually yea now that I've had time to think about it, the cable that goes from the CD-Rom to the sound card is usually a 3 or 4 wire cable, like you see in head phones, so based on that fact it has to be analog already. What about the ones that have 2-pin digital audio out and what about direct digital playback (i.g. ripping)? The point is still mute though, you have to have at least a semi-functional sound card to get the mixer working.