Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 08:12 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: >> This is audio card insanity. All CDs are at 44100 but for some reason >> many card manufacturers designed their cards to run at 48000. This is >> a real problem since this requires rate conversion. Rate conversion is >> in general a very very noisy operation. In particular simple linear >> interpolation, which is quick, is also really really terrible for >> sound quality. >> > > DVDs use 48000. But I seem to recall vendors shipping 48Khz-only cards > before playing DVD on a computer was common... > > Lee Wasn't it DAT that set the standard at 48000 - and CDs were made incompatible at 44.1 kHz to prevent digital copying... David ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
