From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 22:15: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC7F37B416 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:14:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1E928BC9; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:14:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:14:58 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Gautham Ganapathy Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Audio CD without cable In-Reply-To: <003b01c1d482$5ac87c50$1901a8c0@itg.ti.com> Message-ID: <20020326011313.U7437-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > Hi - How can I play audio cds without having the cable that connects the cd-drive to the sound card ? I am able to do this using Windows Media Player in Windows by using an option called Digital Audio. I'd like to know how i can do this in FreeBSD. > Regards > Gautham When I installed a second CD drive (a CDRW) recently, I had to spring a lousy $5 bucks or so for that audio cable, but I hear the digital cable method is the *best* especially for DVDs and true sound... I would guess `man pcm` might lead you on the right path. Also try enabling the proper module (change NO to YES) in /boot/loader.conf -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message