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- From: schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck)
- Subject: Re: audio redirect?...
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:51:14 GMT
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- exodus@vsync.Eng.Sun.COM (Greg Onufer) writes:
-
- >In <27759@sybase.sybase.com> jamest@sybase.com (James Terry) writes:
- >>does anybody know how to redirect output from the sun CD drive to the
- >>workstations internal speaker or to a file?
-
- >Plug a mini-stereo<->mini-stereo cable from the headphone jack of the
- >cd-player to the microphone jack of the SparcStation. Use of an
- >impedance matcher (Radio Shack is one source, there must be others) is
- >recommended but you can probably get by with carefully setting the
- >volume of the cd-player low enough so the audio sounds fine. Then set
- >the monitor volume (via audiotool or other means) and you can listen to
- >the audio without burning any CPU cycles (the monitor functionality
- >exists entirely in the codec). You can also record the input
- >as you would normally.
-
- This, of course, gives you 8-bit 8kHz mono output from a 16bit 44kHz
- stereo source ... hmpf.
-
- Some of the newer CD-ROM drives are supposed to allow direct reading
- of the digital audio data. I havn't yet seen such a beast, though ...
-
- \Bernhard.
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