On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 10:59:13PM +0000, Hadess wrote:
> > > As far as I know, a CD player that doesn't rely on reading raw data from
> > > the CD (even though I'm not sure it would be a problem either) would
> > > work equally well on all arches Linux supports.
> >
> > it's an endianess issue and i want to test it whether it works on
> > other systems too. i just have access to x86 systems, so have to
> > rely on others.
>
> Most CD players don't read raw audio data from the CD to feed them into
> the sound hardware's DA converters, they rather tell the CD to start
> playing some track, and tell the sound hardware to connect the CD drive's
> audio output to the amplifier. That part ought to work fine regardless of
> endianness. We don't know how your CD player works, but endianness might
> not really be an issue. A look at the source might help decide that (and
> the URL for the package source would help me to take a look at the
> source).
If jou want to send raw ATAPI commands you need to be concerned about
endianness, though.
> I'm not sure someone has tried a CD player on PPC that works without the
> CD audio signal. This problem has surfaced on c.o.l.powerpc when Apple
> started shipping machines without the CD audio signal connected to the
> mixer, a month or two ago. A search on deja should turn something up.
I know someone who does using cdda2wav on a LongTrail (no, not me).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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