[Sussex] Laptop sound

[Steven Dobson]

Ronan

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:37 +0000, Ronan Chilvers wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:57:31 +0000 Steven Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > I'm not sure that all laptops (esp early models) could play CDs.  I'm
> > not sure there were the connections to send the audio signal from the
> > player to the laptop's sound hardware.
> </snip>
> 
> Use direct data feed instead of trying to play the CD directly.  XMMS
> has a cdread plugin that lets you read the CD as data, which is then
> interpreted and routed through to the sound hardware by XMMS. That way
> all the CD needs to do is read the data.
> 
> I'm not sure about this point anyway.  I don't think you need a direct
> link betwixt CD and sound card to play CDs - there have been several
> occasions where I've put the little lead to do it in a 'safe place' and
> consequently been unable to put it in.  Still was able to get CDs to
> play though. 

This is an old, under powered PC.  It may not have the CPU grunt to do
that.

Do you know how much grunt this needs?

Steve
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