Subject: Re: Audio
To: Jason L. Wright <jason@thought.net>
From: Rasputin <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/08/2002 10:26:52
* Jason L. Wright <jason@thought.net> [1004 04:04]:
> "Don Yuniskis" <auryn@GCI-Net.com> writes:
> 
> > Greetings!
> >     I'm just starting work on an audio-oriented application.
> > I (naively) had planned on using an SS2.  Then, noticed
> > it's not set up for simple "audio in/out" connections, etc.
> >     A bit more research and now I am *totally* confused...
> > It appears some SPARCs need external hardware to get
> > "real" audio; others are limited to telephone quality CODEC's,
> > and still other hardware appear not to be supported under
> > NetBSD, etc.
> >     If my goal is "16 bit (linear) audio", what boxes should I
> > be looking at?  For now, I can live with just audio *out* -- but
> > will eventually need audio *in* as well.

> You're looking at a SPARCstation 4 (with audio riser added) or SPARCstation 5
> (audio built in).  The ss4 and ss5 both use a cs4231 CODEC (16 bit) which
> is much more flexible than the AMD7990 on some machines and supported
> unlike the DBRI (ISDN) audio found on the ss10/ss20.

Since you bring this up, any idea if DBRI will ever be supported?
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