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- From: bdugan@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Bill Dugan)
- Subject: Quadraphonic CD-ROM drives?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.174023.12853@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Summary: A spec mentions quadraphonic sound. Do any drives support it?
- Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
- Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:40:23 GMT
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-
- Below I enclose a specification I obtained from a friend. I don't even
- know what document it came out of but I suspect it's part of MSCDEX.
- It mentions the output channels for CD audio: left, right, left prime, and
- right prime, saying that the two "prime" channels are for quadraphonic
- stereo sound but that CD drives that don't support them may ignore
- them.
-
- Question: Do any CD drives support quadraphonic stereo? And how would
- the audio information be stored? According to this fragment, the
- redbook specification allows for four audio channels, but is this part
- of standard CD encoding or is it for special quadraphonic CD's that won't work at all with a standard CD drive?
-
- Thanks in advance (article enclosed below),
-
- Bill
- ===========================================================
- - Audio Channel Control
- ________________
-
- AudInfo DB 3 ; Control block code
- DB ? ; Input channel (0, 1, 2, or 3) for output channel 0
- DB ? ; Volume control (0 - 0xff) for output channel 0
- DB ? ; Input channel (0, 1, 2, or 3) for output channel 1
- DB ? ; Volume control (0 - 0xff) for output channel 1
- DB ? ; Input channel (0, 1, 2, or 3) for output channel 2
- DB ? ; Volume control (0 - 0xff) for output channel 2
- DB ? ; Input channel (0, 1, 2, or 3) for output channel 3
- DB ? ; Volume control (0 - 0xff) for output channel 3
- ________________
-
- This function is intended to provide playback control of audio information on
- the disk. It allows input channels on the CD-ROM to be assigned to specific
- output speaker connections. The purpose of this function is to allow two
- independent channels to be recorded - in different languages for example -
- and to play back only one of them at a time or to be able to manipulate
- an audio signal so that the source appears to move - to make a sound seem to
- move from left to right for example.
-
- Output channel 0 is the left channel, 1 is right, 2 is left prime, and 3 is
- right prime. The Red Book specification allows for 4 audio channels. The
- two "prime" channels (2 and 3) extend stereo to quadrophonic stereo.
-
- An audio volume setting of 0 means off. Drives that don't support 4 output
- audio channels may ignore output to channels 2 and 3. Assignment of
- input channels 2 and 3 to output channels 0 and 1 may be treated as though
- the volume control for that channel is 0.
-
- --
- Bill Dugan
- bdugan@gnu.ai.mit.edu
-