Kaffeine DVD/CD Issues

[Kishore]

On Thursday 15 Jan 2009 3:51:32 pm Bob Stia wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 January 2009 07:18:48 pm John wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 04:19:13 Barry Premeaux wrote:
> > > I am running Mandriva 2008.1 on my desktop.  It is an AMD Athlon64
> > > 6000+ on an ASUS M2A-VM motherboard.  I have a pair of LiteOn DVD
> > > drives in it.  Both drives read data DVD/CD's without a problem.  But,
> > > neither will play an audio CD.
> > >
> > > I also have an external USB DVD/CD drive from Samsung.  With it, I can
> > > play audio CD's with Kaffeine just fine.
> > >
> > > Looking at xine engine and the media configuration, it points to the
> > > first DVD drive as /dev/cdrom and dev/dvd.  Checking both of these
> > > under /dev shows them linked to hda as they should be.
> > >
> > > I am really lost on this one.  Do some DVD/CD drives read audio disks
> > > and some not?  Could it be a firmware issue in the LiteOn drives?
> > >
> > > One thought just occurred to me.  The drives are not identical.  The
> > > hda is a 20x20 DVD-RW DL Super Allwrite, while hdb is a more generic
> > > 52x32x52/16 DVD/CDRW.  I'm going to try configuring xine for the second
> > > drive.  In the mean time, any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Barry
>
> Hi Barry and John,
>
> It's been a long long time since I've had to configure audio from CDs but,
> has the technology become so advanced that you no longer need the audio
> cable from the DVD/CD device to the motherboard?
>
> Maybe as simple as that.

Yup! Nowadays CD output is almost always digital. I think you can still play 
the CD in analogue mode where you do require that audio cable from the drive 
to the sound card. I do vaguely remember from my "windows" days that there was 
an option in software to choose whether to play in analogue or in digital 
mode. I don't remember more than that though... sorry. :(
-- 
Cheers!
Kishore
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