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- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!matts
- From: matts@microsoft.com (Matt Saettler)
- Subject: Re: How is CD-Audio handled in MM, and particularly in MPC ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.215117.10429@microsoft.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 21:51:17 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec17.080854.671@shawn.uucp>
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- In article <1992Dec17.080854.671@shawn.uucp> root@shawn.uucp (Mark Jeghers -- UNIX/X/Motif Contractor) writes:
- >Are audio clips generally driven by audio files, or does some
- >audio tracks get played directly from the CD player? If direct
- Both are possible. Most applications use audio files from the
- CD-ROM. However, some applications (where quality is important)
- use CD-Audio (Microsoft Beethoven, for example).
-
- >from the CD player, would there be some particular cabling
- >arrangement between, say, the CD audio and a soundcard? Is
- Yes. The MPC specification requires this cabling (it is called
- mixing). All the audio sources (MIDI synth, waveform audio and
- CD-Audio are mixed by the hardware to one output port (ports
- for stereo) to make it easy to connect speakers, etc.
-
- >there typically any integration of the two (e.g. to sample some
- >audio from the CD, etc) ?
-
- Quality is usually the deciding factor. MPC specification has
- 22Khz at 8bits as the standard. If this is not high enough
- quality (and you are willing to give up the space on the CD),
- CD-Audio is much higher quality and will play on every MPC system.
-
- >
- >Pardon the ignorance in my questions, it's the only way to learn
- >sometimes... :-)
- >
- >Thanx,
- >
- >Mark Jeghers
- >408/281-4823 [voicemail]
- >
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