On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 08:12 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > This is audio card insanity. All CDs are at 44100 but for some reason > many card manufacturers designed their cards to run at 48000. This is > a real problem since this requires rate conversion. Rate conversion is > in general a very very noisy operation. In particular simple linear > interpolation, which is quick, is also really really terrible for > sound quality. >
DVDs use 48000. But I seem to recall vendors shipping 48Khz-only cards before playing DVD on a computer was common... Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
