From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Dec 10 16:51:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18590 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pegasus.com ([209.84.70.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA18580 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:51:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@pegasus.com) Received: by pegasus.com (8.6.8/PEGASUS-2.2) id OAA06401; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 14:51:06 -1000 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 14:51:06 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Message-Id: <199812110051.OAA06401@pegasus.com> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sane sound cards? Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Aloha, I've recently become interested in the mp3 audio stuff and the capability of playing CD quality music with my system. My question is; Are there any sound cards available and supported by BSD that support this function well? All of the cards I've checked into appear to fail because there is no data buffer on the card. At least not large enough to handle 44.1kHz stereo. My guess is that somewhere between 16K and 64K bytes of buffer should be sufficient. I've recently been using a SoundBlaster AWE 64 Gold, with a 200Mhz MMX Pentium running 3.0-RELEASE. It works fine while lightly loaded. But will start dropping audio data as the load climbs a bit. A second or two of on-board buffering should fix the problem completely, and make it possible to play mp3s on slower systems. (Dedicating a whole machine to this function for want of a few K-bytes of buffer seems pretty silly.) Does anyone make a sound card with a decent size buffer on it for it's audio input? Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message