Hi!
> > <going off topic ...>
> > I prefer the normal way : read the data , send it to /dev/audio,
> > like with music from hard-drives, floppies , ZIP media , MO disks ...
>
> if you do that then you waste CPU cycles
> why read the data off the disc, (which takes cpu cycles), pipe the data to
> /dev/audio (more cpu cycles), have sound card interperet it (even MORE CPU
> cycles), and then finally output to speakers? Why not let the
> microcontrollers in the CD-ROM firmware do that for you? Makes a lot more
> sense to me.
That does not work on usb audio, I believe. I also do want to stream
it over ethernet to machine that actually has speakers.
Pavel
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