[RFT] Major snd_hda rewrite

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 14 22:17:13 UTC 2012


On 01/14/2012 13:25, Steve Kargl wrote:
> Remove dvd insert music cd in drive, 'cdcontrol play'.  The
> drive is reading the cd and 'cdcontrol status' indicates
> that it is playing.  No sound.

The way that this was explained to me (and I'm certainly no expert) is
that in the ATA-CAM world the only way the access method used by
cdcontrol will be able to play the music is if there is a direct (wired)
connection from the cd player to the sound card, like we had back in the
80's. :)  Other tools (such as vlc, mplayer, etc.) use the cdda://
method of access, which does not rely on the wire.

(As I understand it) this also explains why dvds work, but cds don't.


hth,

Doug

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