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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: digital audio extraction from CD-ROM via SCSI Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:39:14 -0800 Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 42 Message-ID: <328A15D2.2781E494@star-gate.com> References: <55lonc$hi@hannibal.camelot.de> <55slgr$h3@anorak.kew.utl> <SCOTT.96Nov8141107@crux.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> <560qrf$1g3@itchy.serv.net> <328782CA.4F5E859@lambert.org> <3289BD2E.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> CC: multimedia@freebsd.org Whats the status of "cdd"? Jordan, just talk to Brian Litzinger about playing back your CDIs . If you have a regular NTSC tv it should not be a problem . -- you may have to buy a wireless mouse though so you can really be a FreeBSD coach potatoe 8) Regards, Amancio Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > The first commercially available CDROM capable of reading audio > > data off the CDROM as digital data was the Toshiba 3401B; I > > Not that we actually have anything capable of doing this, currently. :-) > There is a little utility called `cdd' which has been in freefall's > incoming directory for awhile which works with my HP 4020i drive but not > my Toshiba XM3401B or XM3501 drives. I'm not exactly sure why, perhaps > it's just a matter of dealing with the appropriate drive quirks. > > > You should contact the FreeBSD multimedia mailing list (or > > Amancio Hasty, the FreeBSD multimedia guru) for driver information > > (I believe Amancio even had CDI working last time I checked). > > Yes, but only on the Plexstor CDROM drives, which apparenly support the > oddball record size of CDI. I've got about 15 CDI movies (and a CD-I, > operating off 220V and emitting PAL video :-) which I'd love to see on > my FreeBSD box someday, but I'm not holding my breath - according to > Amancio, it's difficult. > > - Jordan Hubbard > President, FreeBSD Project -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046 Fax: 415-495-3046 Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Powered by FreeBSD