From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Sep 2 9:41:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from ex1.ncsa.uiuc.edu (ex1.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED2AA14C4A for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 09:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu) Received: from rivendell.ncsa.uiuc.edu (rivendell.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.21.110]) by ex1.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20975; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:41:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from jdugan by rivendell.ncsa.uiuc.edu with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11MZv4-0001J7-00; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:41:02 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:41:02 -0500 From: Jon Dugan To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Recommendations for a sound card Message-ID: <19990902114102.A5007@ncsa.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i X-md5sum: 0675849b6f08ad701a59dc35f8faab8b X-md5sum-Origin: ex1.ncsa.uiuc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I am looking for a high quality sound card that will work with the pcm driver. I will be using it for conferencing as well as mp3 playback. I looked the the GeoCrawler archives of -multimedia, but the most recent recommendations were about a year old. I'd like high quality (low noise, etc) and I need full-duplex for conferencing. I will be using vat/rat and vic. We (NCSA) are doing a lot with conferencing via multicast. Most is done either from SGIs or Linux boxes (and some *shudder* NT), but I'd love to be able to be able to say the FreeBSD does it better. Our group (the networking group) is all FreeBSD, so from our side it will be FreeBSD. One thing was clear -- don't buy a SoundBlaster. It looks like full-duplex is well supported on WSS/MSS cards, but these cards tend (in my experience) to be low quality cards. Can anyone recommend specific cards (ie, Manufacturer/Model pairs) that are high quality and will support full-duplex well? The manpage and /sys/i386/isa/snd/CARDS tells me that the Crystal and OPL-SAx based cards are good choices, but I've had a hard time finding enough info to glean whether or not they have a supported chipset. I'd appreciate any help you can offer! Thanks, Jon -- Jon Dugan | Network Engineer, NCSA Network Development jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu | 57C CAB, 605 E Springfield, Champaign, IL 61820 217/244-7715 | http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/people/jdugan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message