Darrell, On Thursday 21 October 2004 09:54, Darrell Cormier wrote:
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:08 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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I'm not sure, but I think not all CD-ROM drives support the necessary function. Again, I'm not sure, but I think digital playback requires the same or related functionality for DAE (digital audio extraction, a.k.a. "ripping").
Perhaps, Darrell, this is just a matter of hardware capability?
Randall Schulz
On both machines, where "Use Direct Digital Playback" is grayed out, I have ripped many CDs.
To answer Anders question: ~> rpm -qa |grep kdemultimedia3-CD kdemultimedia3-CD-3.2.1-43
Both machines are DVD drives, maybe that makes a difference. However, I don't believe so, on one machine I have a CD-RW installed as well. If I change the KSCD config to use that drive (i.e. /dev/cdrecorder) the digital playback option is still not active.
Both of the drives on my system are DVDs, one is a recorder and the other a player / -ROM drive. In doing a little experimentation, I found that while there is a disc in the drive the entire "Drive Selection" section of the KsCD configuration dialog is grayed out. I also noticed that when I enabled "Use direct digital playback" that a pop-up for selecting the "audio backend" appeared and I was given the choice of "arts" (which was the default) and "alsa." I left it on arts and had no trouble playing an audio CD. Perhaps something about the other audio configuration on your system is unacceptable to KsCD's direct digital playback mode, and hence it does not offer you that choice?
DC
Randall Schulz