From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Nov 13 13:48:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA18890 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:48:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA18884 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:48:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA11033; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:49:18 -0800 Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:49:17 -0800 (PST) From: Veggy Vinny To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Amancio Hasty Jr." , multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: digital audio extraction from CD-ROM via SCSI In-Reply-To: <7696.847918890@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Actually, that's not correct. For your Toshiba, you need to > > confirm with Toshiba if your firmware can read CDI's at all because CDI > > came in two formats... The original one is Greenbook and you need a > > special software/hardware decoder for it while the newer standard is > > Whitebook and is the same as VideoCD's and just requires MPEG Playback > > software. Both are technologies of Philips, N.A. You might take a look > > Right, I actually have some of both. Good. > Now the question is - how do I test to see if this actually works? :-) Well, what you need to do is get your CD-ROM to extract the data at 2424 byte sectors which as I recall, the Toshiba does support without any firmware upgrades. As long as you can see the directory structure of the CD-ROM, then it would work and this needs to be done in CD XA Mode 1 and Mode 2 compatibility mode. Cheers, Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin