>>>>> "Vineet" == Vineet Kumar <debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net> writes: Vineet> * Bill Moseley (moseley@hank.org) [021125 06:51]: >> Is there any way to emulate a cdrom device? Granted CDRs are >> inexpensive, but I was wondering if there was a way to "burn" a cd to >> a file for testing and they play it like an audio CD. Vineet> You won't be able to play it like an audio CD. When your CD-ROM Vineet> drive does this, it does it at a much lower level; the OS just Vineet> gives it cd-player-style commands like "play" "stop" "skip", Vineet> etc, rather than reading the bits of music and feeding them to Vineet> the soundcard. The CD-ROM is connected directly to the Vineet> soundcard and just spews the music over there without processing Vineet> it at all. So until you put the music under the laser, you Vineet> won't be able to test it "like and audio CD." Some CD players, e.g. alsaplayer and the xmms-cdread plugin, read the digital audio from the disk, and dump it to the sound card. This lets alsaplayer do funky stuff, like playback at double speed for the Chipmunks version, or playing the CD backwards to check if your band has been inserting subliminal messages (YVAN EHT NIOJ). But they might still use CD-specific ioctl's, which would prevent them from working on plain files. -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
Attachment:
pgp0C1gLcH5jl.pgp
Description: PGP signature