William R. Zwicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dominique Dumont wrote:
I have a problem when playing dolby digital streams encoded at
640kbps. This problem occurs with mplayer or 'ac3dec -C'. When playing
640 kbps stream, I hear spikes (or short scratchy sounds) 4 or 5 times
per seconds on all
In short, I'm looking for the best stereo sound I can get from my
Linux system---the main use will be listening to my CD collection
(ripped as FLAC).
A specific question: if using digital output, is there a difference
(sound quality-wise) between optical/toslink and coaxial? Say my
soundcard
In the mean time I have found that kernels 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 do not
suffer from this problem, whereas 2.6.22 till 2.6.25 do.
Testing for kernels 2.6.17 till 2.6.21 is somewhat complicated in my
setup, because there are other problems (NFS-related) which I need to
sort out.
So it looks like
Matt,
It's a great subject and one I've played with quite a bit.
Hopefully I can point you in a direction or two to think about.
Unfortunately, I think in your quest to become totally digital in
your sound path you have ended up leaving out what is actually the
most important component in
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:29:30 -0700
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you'll have to resample your pristine lossless audio rips from 44.1K
to 48K. That will add lots of coloring to the sound and (in my opinion
anyway) make the rest of this discussion almost unimportant.
???
Resampler
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Sergei Steshenko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:29:30 -0700
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you'll have to resample your pristine lossless audio rips from 44.1K
to 48K. That will add lots of coloring to the sound and (in my
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:12:53 -0700
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Sergei Steshenko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:29:30 -0700
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you'll have to resample your pristine lossless audio rips
