Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-24 Thread Grant
>> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to >> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is >> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? > > For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. > Note, I haven't any and you want to

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 23-08-08 00:00, James Shatto wrote: >>> mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob >> I'd have figured that out :-) Didn't work with the 96/24 audio... > > Well, you could probably do the arecord method. > > arecord -D copy -t wav -c 2 -f S24_BE -r 96000 audio_track.wav > (unv

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ > >>> Interesting. Thanks. >> >> Check this out: >> >> http://dvd-a.info/Index.asp?stitle=neil+young >> >> 2 pages of mainly Neil Young DVD-A releases all containing tracks up >> to 24bit/176khz. Lots of people are ripping their DVD-A discs with >> the above

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread James Shatto
> > mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob > > I'd have figured that out :-) Didn't work with the 96/24 audio... Well, you could probably do the arecord method. arecord -D copy -t wav -c 2 -f S24_BE -r 96000 audio_track.wav (unverified syntax) Set record to the PCM / VOL devi

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 23:44, Grant wrote: >>> http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ >> Interesting. Thanks. > > Check this out: > > http://dvd-a.info/Index.asp?stitle=neil+young > > 2 pages of mainly Neil Young DVD-A releases all containing tracks up > to 24bit/176khz. Lots of people are ripping their DVD-

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 23:44, James Shatto wrote: >> Those are the two I have here. mplayer was giving me endless grief >> actually ripping the tracks from the DVD so I haven't yet done that in >> fact, but: > > mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob I'd have figured that out :-) Didn'

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread James Shatto
> Those are the two I have here. mplayer was giving me endless grief > actually ripping the tracks from the DVD so I haven't yet done that in > fact, but: mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob Granted that my default distro supplied version of mplayer didn't work for this.

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
>> Can you rip and play back 20-bit HDCD audio? > > I could, with a hackish tool I have here, but I must say that for now I'm > experiencing the value in HDCD mosly in the fact that if something is an > HDCD it was produced by someone that gives a shit about sound quality and > stands a good chance

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 23:09, Grant wrote: > Can you just mount the DVD and cp the tracks over? Probably not or > you would have done that. Not as individual tracks no. It's a regular DVD-Video, so you can copy over the VOBs ofcourse, but piecing things together requires processing them from harddisk the

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundcard, rather than from th

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 20:58, Grant wrote: >>> Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But >>> for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs >>> are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is >>> minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundca

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
>> Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But >> for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs >> are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is >> minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundcard, rather than >> from the media th

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 17:37, Grant wrote: >>> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to >>> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is >>> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? >> For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. >>

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 15:07, James Shatto wrote: > Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But > for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs > are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is > minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundca

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
>> >> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to >> >> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is >> >> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? > Just a non-relevent FWIW but my cheap $80 mobo does 24/96 with > an optical output and I think it also

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Mark A Jenks
; [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Mark Constable > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:01 AM > To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card > > On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:37:31 am Grant wrote: > > >> I&#

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Mark Constable
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:37:31 am Grant wrote: > >> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to > >> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is > >> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? Just a non-relevent FWIW but my cheap $80 mobo does 24/96 wit

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
>> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to >> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is >> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? > > For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. > Note, I haven't any and you want to

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
>> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to >> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is >> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? > > For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. > Note, I haven't any and you want to

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
> I picked up a Delta 44 (pci / ice1712) off of craigslist for $100. I would > check to see what they need first. The Delta is a fine card, but by the time > you add in a microphone preamp, headphone preamp, and stuff just to record / > playback stuff. Not to mention the costs of cables and a

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread James Shatto
I picked up a Delta 44 (pci / ice1712) off of craigslist for $100. I would check to see what they need first. The Delta is a fine card, but by the time you add in a microphone preamp, headphone preamp, and stuff just to record / playback stuff. Not to mention the costs of cables and adapters

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 21-08-08 16:15, Grant wrote: > I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to > add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is > 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. Note, I h

[Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-21 Thread Grant
I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? - Grant - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the