From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Jul 20 23:36:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from itchy.serv.net (itchy.serv.net [205.153.153.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D0D14E44 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from utz@itchy.serv.net) Received: from localhost (utz@localhost) by itchy.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA32674; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:35:31 -0700 (PDT) From: The Utz Family To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Luigi Rizzo , Cameron Grant , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newpcm writeup In-Reply-To: <98560.932535518@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Design looks pretty sweet, it seems possible that it would not have to be newbus, could be implemented over 3.x, yes? Or does newbus have key enhancements that make this design possible? ( non-catastroph...i mean non-destructive probes comes immediately to mind :-) ) Also, this is probably an off the wall question, but how would the onboard midi and synth stuff cohabitate with this functionality? On a slightly more concrete note, tell us about feeder.c. Is this the code that you base your assertion that you can do on the fly translation successfully? ( i noted the mention of multiple formats in the code ) If i assume that this is indeed the case, then why would you do it in sw? Dont most of the MSS or SB based cards have registers that you set to inform the card that it's getting/(or expected to output) a given format? My limited experience with sound and video processing would lead me to conclude that one would rather have the *card* burn cycles on formats instead of the *cpu*, because the card will just have to wait on the cpu otherwise. of course, if you have multiple PIII's and gigs of ram then this sort of processing would be effectively instantaneous wrt the human ear :-) Please excuse my ignorance if i am completely off base! On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > An even more interesting design... When can we see it? :) > > - Jordan > > > > > > > for the interested, a brief writeup on newpcm is now available at > > > http://www.vilnya.demon.co.uk/design.txt > > > > great graphics btw ! > > > > cheers > > luigi > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message