From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Courtier-Dutton Subject: Re: Playing CD's on 48K-only hardware without resampling... Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:40:55 +0100 Message-ID: <430A3857.40509@superbug.co.uk> References: <430A2FA2.5060004@redfish-solutions.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <430A2FA2.5060004@redfish-solutions.com> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Philip Prindeville Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Philip Prindeville wrote: > Is there a way to transcode CD PCM streams into > DTS so that they can be played without having to > upconvert the signal to 48kHz? > > -Philip > A CD PCM stream converted to DTS would produce a 44.1khz DTS frame, which of course would also not play on 48K-only hardware. The sound playing application should be doing the resampling. I have added support for this into xine. So, if it detects a sound card that can only do 48Khz, xine uses high quality resamplers instead and then outputs to alsa at 48Khz. James ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf