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Re: Is kscd usable? (kdemultimedia 3.1 on ppc)



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On Donnerstag, 13. März 2003 21:58, Matthieu Robin wrote:
> Le Jeudi 13 Mars 2003 21:19, Chris Cheney a écrit :
> > Something I forgot to mention earlier is that PC optical disks have had
> > spdif connectors on them for several years now. So even if you are an
> > audiophile using a cable (a spdif one) would still result in good
> > quality.
>
> On recent PCs, on-the-fly ripping (1x) does not take so much cpu time.
> The analog cable was useful for 486, but I really think that it is outdated
> now (maybe for some old drives that can't extract audio digitally).
>
> The problem is that the current linux kernel is unable to use DMA for audio
> ripping (related to the sector size) on IDE drives. And without DMA, the
> cpu load is high... Something like playing a dvd video vithout overlay...

Whatever the problem is - send in a patch and I'll go over it and add it to 
CVS :-)

Ralf

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