Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:57:49 -0600 From: "Derek Young" <DerekYoung@easy.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Create Extigy Message-ID: <9C3E4906C865FF0499D7CC3539BFEFA1@DerekYoung.easy.com>
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Creative Labs Extigy, flat out rocks. It is definitely the future of pc audio, and I hope that FreeBSD can support it. I am willing to volunteer to write the driver, however I just wanted some feedback on a few issues. I ran a USB sniffer on the device, and when you turn it about 5200 packets get transmitted. Haha. There is definitely a firmware that gets uploaded to it. Would that prevent it from being part of the FreeBSD dist without Creative Labs approval? We can make it as a port very easily, but do I have the right to do that? All I am doing is watching traffic to the device and sending it what it needs to work. I hope that someone who knows what they are talking about will enlighten me. Because I don't know jack about legal stuff. And I don't want to waste a lot of time on this, (cause it will take a lot of time) when I won't be able to give anyone my work. Also, the Extigy has a remote control on it. It has tons of features, like volume control. The cool part is that it has ways to control DVD playback, audio playback, etc. We will need a driver for that also. Maybe someone should ask KDE/Gnome/XMMS/Mplayer/etc what type of interface they would want to the OS. I was thinking like a /dev/mcontrol as a "Multimedia Control" device. KDE could open that up and listen for volume control and stuff like that. It would be cool if this wasn't another one of those... FreeBSD does it that way and Linux does it this way type deals. There is already a /dev/pss that is suppose to be a "Programmable Device Interface", what is that for? I don't know, there would be more to a Multimedia Control than one might think. For example, with the extigy you can define if you are using headphones, 2 speakers, 5 speakers, etc. It will attempt to produce the best sound for your setup as possible. You can also say what you want it to sound like, an auditorium, a stadium, a small room, a live show, etc. I don't know if those are hardware based things or software based things. I will find out with some effort. Also, when it comes to things like Dolby 5.1 sound and such... that is way in the future for BSD, but has anyone considered what will take place to make that work? Or does it automatically work when you send dolby encoded data to /dev/dsp on devices that support it? I don't know much about this stuff, but I can reverse engineer stuff pretty well. I have always wanted a computer to control my home sound system, I just have never seen a sound card that I was happy with.. (Something about the limited space on a PCI card, limited power, and tons of interference from the all the parts inside your computer) Thanks Derek Young 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 only. Not all subscribers to this e-mail service are representatives of an easyGroup company.
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