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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 1996 15:34:48 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        schulzrinne@fokus.gmd.de (Henning Schulzrinne)
Cc:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@freebsd.org, multimedia@rah.star-gate.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and VAT
Message-ID:  <199601191434.PAA00749@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199601191239.EAA01431@rah.star-gate.com> from "Henning Schulzrinne" at Jan 19, 96 01:39:14 pm

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> Given how cheap crystal oscillators are, I'm amazed that people build 
> cards that can't stick to a nominal frequency. (All useful frequencies 
> are multiples of either 8000 or 11025 Hz, it seems.)

I believe all cards have crystals. The cheapest ones
can only run at certain discrete frequencies which are an integral
submultiples of the crystal. More sophisticated cards have a full
synthetizer which allows a wider range of choices

	sample_freq =  crystal * N1/N2

	Luigi
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email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
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