VCD disks

[Jason Andresen]

Oliver Fromme wrote:

> Also, playing audio CDs directly works fine, like this:
> tosha -o - | pcmplay -
> 
> (That's very useful if you don't have an audio cable
> connection between the CD-ROM drive and the sound card.
> And even if you do, the quality will probably be better,
> because there's one analogue step less.)

Eh?  I was under the impression that the CD cable is wired to 
passthrough ports on the soundcard.  I didn't know the soundcard did 
anything with that signal beyond just hardwiring it to the headphone jack.

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