On 24/11/2020 23:09, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
kscd will control the hardware but it needs a optical drive to audio card audio cable to play the output. You can test it yourself.
AFAIK older CD-ROM drives contained an internal DA converter and have been able to output analog audio via a front plug to a e.g. headphone and via a rear cable to the analog input of the soundcard. Furthermore an application was able to read the digital signal from the drive directly and send it via software to the soundcard but the reading speed often was too low and the process wasn't reliable enough. Therefore in those years normally the sound was routed from the analog output of the CD drive via cable to the analog input of the soundcard and from there to its analog output. Software could start, stop, ... the drive but did not handle the audio data stream. Modern drives have economized the internal AD converter and the plugs. You are not able to connect a cable. All software has to read the media's (CD, DVD) digital content and send it to the soundcard. Reading speed now is fast enough to handle the data stream reliable. I have never seen (heard about) an optical connection between drive and soundcard. Just my 2 cent Gerhard ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
