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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:27:37 -0500
From:      Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VCD disks
Message-ID:  <3E830A59.5070704@mitre.org>
In-Reply-To: <200303262315.h2QNFBkq059919@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200303262315.h2QNFBkq059919@lurza.secnetix.de>

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Oliver Fromme wrote:

> Also, playing audio CDs directly works fine, like this:
> tosha -o - | pcmplay -
> 
> (That's very useful if you don't have an audio cable
> connection between the CD-ROM drive and the sound card.
> And even if you do, the quality will probably be better,
> because there's one analogue step less.)

Eh?  I was under the impression that the CD cable is wired to 
passthrough ports on the soundcard.  I didn't know the soundcard did 
anything with that signal beyond just hardwiring it to the headphone jack.

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