Re: Audio CD's on a Pismo (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4)
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:14:34PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:27:48AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> > Most CD-ROM drives have a digital out as well as an analog out, I
> > don't know why they didn't just connect the digital out to the sound
> > card, instead of wasting CPU time doing it.
>
> Think Different
Oh, right... It's so you could put the DSP features of the G4 (i.e.
altivec) to good use, and make everything sound however you want. :)
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