From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 21 15:33:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3415B16A404 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:33:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scuppers@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED09D13C457 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:33:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scuppers@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f31so517772pyh for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:33:45 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=PLMU7vMIlezBbY/k3+xKIplZi4DE5jlxYScmn18WQBBbpgp3zQtu3Y8JaWBneMkds27txicCffUHW3JoQ2nBiV4OqvZ6sAbcKLExjbCLriNYuN37spXs04gTAAhwm4hkK0LXED7enzpDn4zGSRecWDnvKodUHAh7wq2WL1R+H20= Received: by 10.35.107.20 with SMTP id j20mr8519397pym.1169393625144; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:33:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.111.9 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:33:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:33:45 -0500 From: "Scott Spare" To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: snd_envy24(4) and snd_envy24ht(4) MFC X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:33:46 -0000 In reference to the snd_envy24 drivers and card, I have an M-Audio Audiophile 192 which I will be very happy to test new drivers on or to get hardware info as needed. The way I understand it, however this card is the one that has already been tested the most, so I don't know how valuable that will be. I hope others reading this list can agree - soundcard driver development is a valuable step toward helping FreeBSD into the multimedia realm. The M-Audio cards are very nice for entry-level recording studio and audiophile multimedia application and maybe for home theater and home stereo applications. FreeBSD is rock-solid and non-resource intensive in its default state. Also great fun for gearheads ;-) Seems a good match. The machine I have with the envy-based card is currently running "that other company's OS" but am considering a MythTV setup running Wine for those cases where that's necessary. I will need to do most of my testing in a VMWare box early on, since it's the primary computer at this point. There would be something really cool about having three BSD boxen here. Snapstream was the killer app for the DVR, but recently has hit all kinds of trouble... Gaming may make the whole "Windows-extraction effort" difficult. The main game I'm playing has copy-protection which doesn't work and play well with Wine. (the game's Psychonauts - it's a great game) Hitting snags currently with console apps and the mixer. More specifically, the mixer doesn't control the volume on shell-fm . That's on a different card (the emu_10k based one)