Re: which pci sound card does not have dropouts under load

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 16:23:28 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Reading digital audio from a CD is more involved than just telling the
> IDE/SCSI controller to DMA it in. You have to do the ECC error
> correction, jitter correction, etc. that the drive would have normally
> done, if you want scratch and pop free audio.

You most definitely do not have to do ecc error correction.
And jitter correction is only needed on very broken drives.
Mostly its just a case of 'read data block from CD, dump to USB'.
Thats all.

-Dan

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