Re: [xine-user] Audio CDROM playback

[Bill F. <bil...@mi...>]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Manfred Tremmel wrote:

> Am Samstag, 31. August 2002 02:46 schrieb Bill Fink:
> 
> > What vintage PowerBook do you have?  Earlier Apple systems did have
> 
> A (not realy new) PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet II) 266 MHz.
> 
> > the analogue audio cable or maybe even newer PowerBooks still have
> > it. It definitely doesn't work on my dual 500 MHz G4 (with non-SMP
> 
> I can't find a audio-cable. Also CD-sound dosen't work with alsa drivers 
> (0.5.12 and 0.9beta3 tested).

I'm no hardware expert so take this with a grain of salt.  I don't
believe it's an actual cable.  Since the audio hardware on Macs is
built-in as opposed to being a separate sound card, I believe it was
just a connection on the motherboard, which was there on earlier Macs
such as yours, but which was eliminated on more recent Macs such as
mine (which is about 2 years old now).

> > kernel) and I don't believe it would work on any more recent Apple
> > desktop systems (I am using the OSS driver).  I would love to be
> > proven wrong however.
> 
> Maybe it dosen't work with every Mac. Hardware changes.
> 
> > Here's all I get when I press the CDA button and then play (the CD
> > title does show up in the GUI):
> >
> > input_cda: server 'freedb.freedb.org:8880' successfuly connected.
> > input_cda: server 'freedb.freedb.org:8880' successfuly connected.
> > xine_play: xine open cda://1, start pos = 0, start time = 0 (sec)
> > demux_elem: stop...ignored
> > audio_oss_out: AO_CTRL_FLUSH_BUFFERS
> > xine: using input plugin >CDA< for this MRL (cda://1).
> > using input plugin 'CDA' for MRL 'cda://1'
> > demux_avi: input capabilities = 525
> > demux_avi: input capabilities = 525
> > system layer format 'CDA' detected.
> > metronom: video discontinuity #2, type is 0, disc_off is 0
> > metronom: waiting for audio discontinuity #2
> > metronom: audio discontinuity #2, type is 0, disc_off 0
> > metronom: audio vpts adjusted with prebuffer to 1350549
> > metronom: waiting for in_discontinuity update #2
> > metronom: video vpts adjusted to 1350549
> 
> It's nearly the same here (only in german ;-) ), but music's coming out 
> of the PowerBook.
> Do you have activated CD in the mixer. I'm using KDE 3.0.3, in KMix the 
> green light on top and the red light on bottom has to be activated.

I didn't have kmix (was just using aumix) so I got it.  All settings
were correct as you indicated.  Oh well, if nothing else, I now have
kmix which seems to be a useful gadget.

						-Thanks

						-Bill