From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Mar 24 09:25:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA19715 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:25:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.cs.unc.edu (austin.cs.unc.edu [152.2.128.87]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA19710 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:25:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from gamella.cs.unc.edu by austin.cs.unc.edu (8.6.10/UNC_10_05_96) id MAA12870; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 12:25:22 -0500 From: Jan Borgersen Received: by gamella.cs.unc.edu (8.6.10/UNC_06_21_94) id MAA20625; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 12:25:18 -0500 Message-Id: <199703241725.MAA20625@gamella.cs.unc.edu> Subject: general audio drivers question To: multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 12:25:16 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am not too familiar with audio drivers, so I'm hoping you guys can answer this easily and save me a trip through the code... I also don't need a very detailed answer... Generally, how is data captured or received from the card? Is it all raw sample data and are the drivers responsible for converting among file/compression formats or is any of this done at the hardware level? Also, does this vary among soundcards? (Specifically, is there a difference in the way this is handled b/w a SB16 and a GUS?) Thanks, -j ___________________________________________________________________ Jan Martin Borgersen borg@techie.com http://www.cs.unc.edu/~borgerse