From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: What does the data stream to a sound card look like?
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 09:50:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110528095044.GA3946@acm.acm> (raw)
Hi, Gentoo.
It occurred to me the other day that I am clueless about how a sound
card works. How do the data get into it? Does the sound card use an
interrupt to ask for more data?
What form do the data take? Say I feed an mp3 through the card. Does
the Athlon do the decompression, or does the sound card do it?
Last of all, is there a command line program which can play a CD by
feeding its data into the sound card?
Thanks for any and all enlightenment.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next reply other threads:[~2011-05-28 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-28 9:50 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2011-05-28 10:19 ` [gentoo-user] Re: OT: What does the data stream to a sound card look like? Nikos Chantziaras
2011-05-28 14:13 ` Florian Philipp
2011-05-29 12:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
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