On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 04:05:23PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Fri 27 Jan 06, 12:50 PM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 05:06:09AM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > Digital extraction is where the cd is read, and the signal gets pumped > > > through the ATA port to your speakers. This is more efficient from the > > > CPU's standpoint. > > > > Woah, I would think this is way LESS efficient. > > No. The CPU is involved in many read-copy operations when the signal passes > through the sound card. > > AFAIK, the north and south bridge use DMA during digital extraction.
Pete, I'm pretty sure that the CPU isn't even /involved/ with analog mode. It's analog. There is no read/copy. There's nothing to read/copy. -- Micah J. Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech