Re: CD-ROM Music
From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 12/19/03
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Date: 19 Dec 2003 16:31:32 GMT
On 19 Dec 2003 07:53:32 -0800, Gerard Oberle staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> I don't have an audio cable from the CD-ROM (or the DVD, for that
> matter) to the analog inputs on the "sound card"
Get one? $0.50 or so at a used computer-parts store.
> Nevertheless, the WinXP media player seems to be able to play both
> music (from CDs) and movies (on the DVD drive), apparently by actually
> reading the data and feeding it digitally to the sound "device(s)."
That's exactly what it's doing. The CPU has to do the equivalent of
using cdda2wav to read the audio CD, then take the resulting PCM data
and push it through the sound card. Long run for a short slide IMHO,
but it saves large OEMs like Dull and HPCompaquard a few cents per unit,
so it must be right.
> When I try to play an audio CD from RedHat, it appears to direct the
> CD drive to "play" an audio stream, because I can plug headphones into
> the drive and hear the music. Lacking an audio cable, though, I
> cannot play music through the speakers.
There's a plugin for xmms called "cdread" that will do this.
> 2. Similarly, is there software that will play a movie?
http://mplayerhq.hu/ . Works great for all the DiVX;-) AVIs, MPEGs, VCD
images, SVCD images, Sorenson Quicktime movie files, and movie files in
hosts of weird or proprietary codecs I've seen. It will play DVDs, but
its DVD menu support is practically nonexistent--Xine is a better DVD
player.
I wouldn't worry about having the RIAA's jackbooted thugs at your door
unless you're downloading copyrighted content you don't have rights to.
I use Xine and libdvdcss to watch the DVDs I own (or rent) and don't
care who knows it.
> 4. Should I install an audio cable anyway?
Yes. Well, you don't *have* to, but it might be less annoying in the
long run.
> 5. Are there any plain "sound" files on the RedHat distro (analogous
> to Windows' *.wav), from which I can otherwise test the install?
$KDEDIR/share/sounds/ should have a bunch of .wav files sitting around.
This assumes you've installed KDE.
> On my really old box I used workbone from a console terminal. It was
> sort of like using, well, Unix.
There are other CD players besides workbone. I use kscd, but not
frequently since I've already ripped and encoded all the good stuff from
my CD collection.
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