From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Oct 31 19:45:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.ipass.net (pluto.ipass.net [198.79.53.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5295114EB7 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:45:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rhh@ipass.net) Received: from stealth.ipass.net. (ppp-1-154.dialup.rdu.ipass.net [209.170.132.154]) by pluto.ipass.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03076 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:44:54 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.ipass.net. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA21107 for freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:44:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rhh) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:44:46 -0500 From: Randall Hopper To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creative seems to open up SB Live Message-ID: <19991031224446.B20788@ipass.net> References: <199911010105.CAA13247@oranje.my.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <199911010105.CAA13247@oranje.my.domain> Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marc van Woerkom: |This interesting article | | http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/29/2053221&mode=nested | |and this comment | | OK, I guess the cat is out of the bag now. Like the article says, | Creative is opening the sources to the existing SBLive (Emu10K1, | technically) Linux kernel driver. The current sourcebase is what would | have been release as beta4 of the driver, with 4-speaker support (stereo | mirroring only at present) and SPDIF output being the main changes from | beta3. Awesome! Do 4-channel MP3s exist yet?! If not, bet it won't be long. DVD decoder cards, HDTV tuner cards, Dolby Pro-Logic decoder cards, ... [drool] If this materializes, man, I'm definitely going to upgrade the sound system in this room! :-) Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message