RE: MD: CD-ROM with Digital out

1999-08-13 Thread Simon Mackay
===BEGIN QUOTE > Sometimes the CD-ROM has been known to stall, and sometimes cause the > computer to hang, in the midst of a playback session. How can I prevent this > from occurring during a playback session? > Why does it stall? a very sc

Re: MD: CD-ROM with Digital out

1999-08-11 Thread Marc SPARC
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Graham Baker wrote: > My CD Rom (Panasonic?) h

Re: MD: CD-ROM with Digital out

1999-08-11 Thread Marc SPARC
Simon Mackay wrote: > Hi everyone! > Hi Simon. > > I have a Creative 8x CD-ROM which has terminals on the back for some sort of > digital out. If I wired those across an RCA socket, would that provide the > kind of SP-DIF digital signal expected by a consumer-grade digital recorder > or outboa

Re: MD: CD-ROM with Digital out

1999-08-11 Thread Graham Baker
My CD Rom (Panasonic?) has 2 small pins on the back of the cct bd for digital out. I couldn't find a suitable plug so I soldered a length of coax cable directly to them and terminated the other end with an RCA plug. It plugs directly into the coaxial input on my JA3-ES and works great - track mar

Re: MD: CD-ROM with Digital out

1999-08-11 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Marc SPARC wrote: > you need this very simple circuit: http://www.stack.nl/~leon/spdif/index.html I have just connected the output of my creative DVDrom to an RCA plug and it works great.. > Why does it stall? a very scratched disc? > > causes the computer to hang? try a better OS...I'd sugge