From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 19 01:28:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280F037B401 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2003 01:28:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c0mailgw05.prontomail.com (c0mailgwalt.prontomail.com [207.183.238.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEED843F75 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2003 01:28:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DerekYoung@easy.com) Received: from c0web102 (c0mailgwalt.prontomail.com [207.183.238.110]) h3J8LSm03048; Sat, 19 Apr 2003 01:21:29 -0700 X-Version: easygroup 6.3.3.2329.0 X-SenderIP: 172.158.106.226 X-SenderID: 24844284 From: "Derek Young" Message-Id: <7EC59DA54B69337408A6CF62A205EE5A@DerekYoung.easy.com> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 03:24:47 -0500 X-Priority: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: soralx@cydem.org.ua X-Mailer: Web Based Pronto Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Create Extigy X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 08:28:50 -0000 >Do you already know >about 'http://www.cs.umass.edu/~cochran/'? >(link from 'http://opensource.creative.com/') > >18.04.2003; 23:41:12 >[SorAlx] =A0http://cydem.org.ua/ Couple issues.. one the guy created a /dev/ir device... which isn't accurate because the extigy has a knob on the front which you turn that adjusts the volume in the software of your computer. That isn't IR :-P not to mention various other multimedia control type devices might show up in the next few years. No dolby surround sound. He doesn't know how to update the firmware.... I do. I might figure out something where the person downloads the latest firmware and put it in the /ports/distfiles (a la, java). The linux usb and sound support is not exactly like ours. It can only play at 48KHz.. Writing this driver is a huge task, however it is much more simple than it looks. Right now on my laptop I have one of those crappy Intel ICH3 sound cards, that won't work at all. I am really not capable of pulling out equipment to open up my laptop and sniff pci data going to it while windows XP uses it. The Extigy (or other USB devices) you can run snoop usb and log everything that happens. Compare that log to what FreeBSD does, and you can see your problem. However, there is a ton of things supported by the Extigy that I think might just be software. With CMMS on playing a mp3 takes around 10% of my CPU. Heh. easy.com This message was sent from the free private e-mail service by easy.com,= the portal site owned by Stelios and the easyGroup. This email service = is available to all members of the public to use for personal reasons on= ly. Not all subscribers to this e-mail service are representatives of a= n easyGroup company.