Well you have to buy VMWare, and a copy of Windows. Plus from what I last heard, VMWare doesn't support 3D acceloration.
Wine on the other hand has most of Windows' DLLs reimplimented internally so you don't need a copy of Windows. (But if you have one installed it can use the DLLs that it finds there to help itself along.)
Well my computers didn't come with Windows. I don't even have a licence to install a copy. Luckly I don't play many games at all, and consoles do it well enough when I get the urge one every few months.
I can't get to the site to read the article. But I'm guessing the reviewer booted into Windows to install the games? That is one thing I find really lacking about Wine, and what keeps me from using it. It is just about impossible to install software under Wine. One has to boot into Windows do the install, then you can go back and use the software in Wine. Also in the review if there was a copy of Windows installed. Did the reviewer have WineX configured to make use of Windows DLLs, or just use the built in versions?
Sony maybe agressively marketing SACD, but there are still just as many DVD-A discs being made. Have a look at High Fidelity Review. It also seems that the SACD format gets stuff I don't want to listen to, Toto's IV? While DVD-A gets more progressive music, Dishwalla.
Most SACD/DVD-A players only have analog out and have a built in decoder.
The few DVD-A players that I have seen that have had S/PDIF outs would only output AC-3, DTS, or PCM.
I don't think there is a spec describing the proper way to put MLP compressed LPCM on the wire, so no decoders support it, and no players output it.
I have seen DVD players that have S/PDIFs that do 2 channel 192kHz at 24-bit PCM. That is enough bandwidth. But there isn't a spec for putting the multichannel data on the wire, so no decoders have it implimented yet, and player don't output it.
The old AT&T one had a piece of plastic that you could slide in front of the lens. (My webcam has the same thing.) I think this is the an absolutely needed feature for a video phone.
One article says Media Player 9 will allow the user to select how much information is set to content providers. But the other goes into detail about the new DRM featurs of MP9. One of the biggest is a 3rd party clearing house for certificate athentication and authorization.
So you get a DRM enabled media file. When you play it, Media Player has to contact this server to find out if you are allowed to play it. They can track every time you play this file.
Maybe you'll have a feature that protects your privacy, but if you don't let the player contact the clearing house, you can't play the files.
Also, I'm sure everyone saw it coming. The reason Microsoft changed their EULA is because of this new DRM crack down. They want any program that can open a DRMed file to have to be authenticated, and they want to be able to disable any program that will attempt to get around these restrictions, and they don't want to get in trouble for messing up software you have installed.
Good thing I use a free and open OS. But if this type of thing continues, all media produced will be encrypted and you'll have to contact the DRM server to view it. So it won't matter. Just wait until router manufacturers are convinced to not all their producted to transmit any packets that haven't been DRMified properly.
How about a pet store that sells crickets. It is in a strip mall. A pizza place 2 stores down starts complaining about the amount crickets around. Solution: Release 100 tokays. No more crickets, but still an odd chirping.
Yes, when I started to read the summary here, I was so worried that Verizon would go along with them. My ISP gets it's bandwidth from Verizon, so this is a big deal to me.
How about piping the output of mpg123 into oggenc?
I wouldn't do it, probally for the same reason they say on the page. MP3 and Vorbis compression throw away different parts of the signal, so you could end up with a pretty poor sounding file.
But as for the software, I could whip up a shell script that would do what you want in a few minutes, including pulling the tags from the MP3 and putting them in the Ogg, and optionally removing the MP3 when you are done. (Actually I think I have seen this exact script written by someone else before.)
The Liquid Audio files are fully Digital Rights Managed, I have one on my harddisk that I can no longer listen to, caues something changed on my computer.
The song sucked anyway, but the ammount of hassle it took to get the player installed (along with some funky sound card drivers (I think they are installed to try to keep listeners from playing to the harddisk instead of speakers) was increadable.
If I had a OS X box the first thing I'd do is get a different mouse and keyboard. We have an OS X box here at work, and I have plugged my 3 button USB mouse into it, and it actually knows what to do when I right click on things.
I'm seeing SACD specs as being 100kHz bandwidth, 120 dB dynamic range, with the same quality for all channels.
So are they saying 100kHz bandwidth meaning the carrier would have to be 200kHz? 120 dB is about 24-bit. 6 channels of full quality, is 200kHz*6, giving you 1200kHz == 1.2MHz.
Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. DSD encoding is reported to have flaws when it comes to high frequencies, causing distortions.
I think the only benifits to DSD is the ease of converting to analog. It is harder to encode.
You are right about the limit of DVD-A players that have digital outs. I was also forgetting that 2 channel DVD-A can be as high as 192kHz/24-bit PCM. I don't have a DAC that will do that. I was mentioning Harman Kardon in another post. The have a straight DVD player that will output that high from the S/PDIF. I really want to see what they'll offer in a DVD-A/SACD player.
Perhaps I was not hard enough on DVD-A. I was just looking at the specs. I don't like it much either from a technical stand point, but at least it is a ratified standard.
Problems with DVD-A:
Copyprotection, uses a system called Content Protection for Pre-recorded Media (CPPM). It is a bit like CSS (they were going to use CSS-II until DeCSS was released). But the keys are 56-bit not 40. It also has a nasty feature that encrypted data can include a list of revoked keys. So if a manufacturer does something the media producers don't like they can disable their players from playing all new releases. The list of revoked keys is updated every 3 months. So if someone cracks CPPM they better find all the keys, to totally break the usefulness of this feature.
There is also watermarking included in the audio stream. It was designed to not be audible, yet can be detected in an analog output. I think if it can be detected by equipment is has to be doing something not natural to the content. That is what Sony was getting at with their physical watermarking system.
Oh well. I'll just have to be happy with my harddisk recordings of my friend's bands. They are high quality and not molested. Otherwise I'll wait for Harman Kardon to come out with a player, they seem to be looking out for the consumers.
No, they have not been approved, this is a Sony "standard". DVD-A (DVD-Audio) is a real standard, and more labels than just Sony's are producing material in this format.
There are players than support both SACD and DVD-A, I guess those are okay, not that I'd touch a SACD. Sony does make SACD only players.
Here are some facts about Sony's SACD players. They don't have a digital output. So that $1500+ DAC that you have is going to do no good. Sony wants only analog coming out of their box. Sony says this will get you better quality, cause most recievers won't be able to decode the 96kHz/24-bit audio as well as their built in decoder. I think they are wrong. Just about anyone who is adopting the better than CD formats at this point will surely have a better quality DAC than what they put in the box.
I'm not sure about the region coding on SACDs, but I know for a fact that DVD-A don't have any sort of region coding on their audio only portion. They are like regular CDs. If they include a standard DVD session it can contain all the usual DVD codes, including regions, but the ones I've seen have been region free. Also the DVD-A players I've seen have had TOS-link and/or S/PDIF outs.
I have a full Sony setup at my house, but I'm not going to buy any more Sony gear. They are restricting content more and more, while other companies are freeing up more (see the majority of DVD players with region hacks, except Sony's). You can't trust a content provider to produce content players that let you use the content as you want.
First if you don't want people linking to your site at all, you are just an idiot and shouldn't be allowed to have a website at all.
But secondly, and this is usually mentioned when this comes up, but I'll say it again.
If you don't want people deep linking into your site, put some sort of CGI in place. Either with refer checking, cookies, or a server side stateful mechinism that tracks a visitors progress through the site. The first two can be defeated if someone really wants in, but will stop most linking.
But this is just stupid anyway. If people weren't ment to link between sites it would have been called the World Wide Line, or the World Wide Collection-of-Sites-that-You-Have-to-Remember-Ever y-URL-For.
It may have been, but as you see, I'm trying to compile 2.2.5, not a CVS snapshot. As a matter of fact, they almost surely have been fixed in the CVS, as the patched I liked to had questions about if they should be committed the the CVS.
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Well you have to buy VMWare, and a copy of Windows. Plus from what I last heard, VMWare doesn't support 3D acceloration.
Wine on the other hand has most of Windows' DLLs reimplimented internally so you don't need a copy of Windows. (But if you have one installed it can use the DLLs that it finds there to help itself along.)
Well my computers didn't come with Windows. I don't even have a licence to install a copy. Luckly I don't play many games at all, and consoles do it well enough when I get the urge one every few months.
I can't get to the site to read the article. But I'm guessing the reviewer booted into Windows to install the games? That is one thing I find really lacking about Wine, and what keeps me from using it. It is just about impossible to install software under Wine. One has to boot into Windows do the install, then you can go back and use the software in Wine. Also in the review if there was a copy of Windows installed. Did the reviewer have WineX configured to make use of Windows DLLs, or just use the built in versions?
Sony maybe agressively marketing SACD, but there are still just as many DVD-A discs being made. Have a look at High Fidelity Review. It also seems that the SACD format gets stuff I don't want to listen to, Toto's IV? While DVD-A gets more progressive music, Dishwalla.
Most SACD/DVD-A players only have analog out and have a built in decoder.
The few DVD-A players that I have seen that have had S/PDIF outs would only output AC-3, DTS, or PCM.
I don't think there is a spec describing the proper way to put MLP compressed LPCM on the wire, so no decoders support it, and no players output it.
I have seen DVD players that have S/PDIFs that do 2 channel 192kHz at 24-bit PCM. That is enough bandwidth. But there isn't a spec for putting the multichannel data on the wire, so no decoders have it implimented yet, and player don't output it.
The old AT&T one had a piece of plastic that you could slide in front of the lens. (My webcam has the same thing.) I think this is the an absolutely needed feature for a video phone.
Time Warner has to do this after the merger with AOL. Otherwise they would have just required everyone to go with AOL service on their cable system.
One article says Media Player 9 will allow the user to select how much information is set to content providers. But the other goes into detail about the new DRM featurs of MP9. One of the biggest is a 3rd party clearing house for certificate athentication and authorization.
So you get a DRM enabled media file. When you play it, Media Player has to contact this server to find out if you are allowed to play it. They can track every time you play this file.
Maybe you'll have a feature that protects your privacy, but if you don't let the player contact the clearing house, you can't play the files.
Also, I'm sure everyone saw it coming. The reason Microsoft changed their EULA is because of this new DRM crack down. They want any program that can open a DRMed file to have to be authenticated, and they want to be able to disable any program that will attempt to get around these restrictions, and they don't want to get in trouble for messing up software you have installed.
Good thing I use a free and open OS. But if this type of thing continues, all media produced will be encrypted and you'll have to contact the DRM server to view it. So it won't matter. Just wait until router manufacturers are convinced to not all their producted to transmit any packets that haven't been DRMified properly.
How about a pet store that sells crickets. It is in a strip mall. A pizza place 2 stores down starts complaining about the amount crickets around. Solution: Release 100 tokays. No more crickets, but still an odd chirping.
Yes, when I started to read the summary here, I was so worried that Verizon would go along with them. My ISP gets it's bandwidth from Verizon, so this is a big deal to me.
How about piping the output of mpg123 into oggenc?
I wouldn't do it, probally for the same reason they say on the page. MP3 and Vorbis compression throw away different parts of the signal, so you could end up with a pretty poor sounding file.
But as for the software, I could whip up a shell script that would do what you want in a few minutes, including pulling the tags from the MP3 and putting them in the Ogg, and optionally removing the MP3 when you are done. (Actually I think I have seen this exact script written by someone else before.)
I believe it was "fixed" with Perl already. Keeps people from forcing the page to scroll horizontally by putting a long unbroken line of text.
4 45 5555555559 01234567890 123456789
00000000011111111112222222222333333333344444444
12345678901234567890123456789012345678
The Liquid Audio files are fully Digital Rights Managed, I have one on my harddisk that I can no longer listen to, caues something changed on my computer.
The song sucked anyway, but the ammount of hassle it took to get the player installed (along with some funky sound card drivers (I think they are installed to try to keep listeners from playing to the harddisk instead of speakers) was increadable.
I'll never get another song in that format.
What if Microsoft has an API to by pass the filters Zone Alarm hooks in?
I have never seen the sense in firewalling a machine with the same machine.
No, the British don't build computers, they couldn't find a way to make them leak oil.
If I had a OS X box the first thing I'd do is get a different mouse and keyboard. We have an OS X box here at work, and I have plugged my 3 button USB mouse into it, and it actually knows what to do when I right click on things.
I'm seeing SACD specs as being 100kHz bandwidth, 120 dB dynamic range, with the same quality for all channels.
So are they saying 100kHz bandwidth meaning the carrier would have to be 200kHz? 120 dB is about 24-bit. 6 channels of full quality, is 200kHz*6, giving you 1200kHz == 1.2MHz.
Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. DSD encoding is reported to have flaws when it comes to high frequencies, causing distortions.
I think the only benifits to DSD is the ease of converting to analog. It is harder to encode.
You are right about the limit of DVD-A players that have digital outs. I was also forgetting that 2 channel DVD-A can be as high as 192kHz/24-bit PCM. I don't have a DAC that will do that. I was mentioning Harman Kardon in another post. The have a straight DVD player that will output that high from the S/PDIF. I really want to see what they'll offer in a DVD-A/SACD player.
Perhaps I was not hard enough on DVD-A. I was just looking at the specs. I don't like it much either from a technical stand point, but at least it is a ratified standard.
Problems with DVD-A:
Copyprotection, uses a system called Content Protection for Pre-recorded Media (CPPM). It is a bit like CSS (they were going to use CSS-II until DeCSS was released). But the keys are 56-bit not 40. It also has a nasty feature that encrypted data can include a list of revoked keys. So if a manufacturer does something the media producers don't like they can disable their players from playing all new releases. The list of revoked keys is updated every 3 months. So if someone cracks CPPM they better find all the keys, to totally break the usefulness of this feature.
There is also watermarking included in the audio stream. It was designed to not be audible, yet can be detected in an analog output. I think if it can be detected by equipment is has to be doing something not natural to the content. That is what Sony was getting at with their physical watermarking system.
Oh well. I'll just have to be happy with my harddisk recordings of my friend's bands. They are high quality and not molested. Otherwise I'll wait for Harman Kardon to come out with a player, they seem to be looking out for the consumers.
No, they have not been approved, this is a Sony "standard". DVD-A (DVD-Audio) is a real standard, and more labels than just Sony's are producing material in this format.
There are players than support both SACD and DVD-A, I guess those are okay, not that I'd touch a SACD. Sony does make SACD only players.
Here are some facts about Sony's SACD players. They don't have a digital output. So that $1500+ DAC that you have is going to do no good. Sony wants only analog coming out of their box. Sony says this will get you better quality, cause most recievers won't be able to decode the 96kHz/24-bit audio as well as their built in decoder. I think they are wrong. Just about anyone who is adopting the better than CD formats at this point will surely have a better quality DAC than what they put in the box.
I'm not sure about the region coding on SACDs, but I know for a fact that DVD-A don't have any sort of region coding on their audio only portion. They are like regular CDs. If they include a standard DVD session it can contain all the usual DVD codes, including regions, but the ones I've seen have been region free. Also the DVD-A players I've seen have had TOS-link and/or S/PDIF outs.
I have a full Sony setup at my house, but I'm not going to buy any more Sony gear. They are restricting content more and more, while other companies are freeing up more (see the majority of DVD players with region hacks, except Sony's). You can't trust a content provider to produce content players that let you use the content as you want.
First if you don't want people linking to your site at all, you are just an idiot and shouldn't be allowed to have a website at all.
r y-URL-For.
But secondly, and this is usually mentioned when this comes up, but I'll say it again.
If you don't want people deep linking into your site, put some sort of CGI in place. Either with refer checking, cookies, or a server side stateful mechinism that tracks a visitors progress through the site. The first two can be defeated if someone really wants in, but will stop most linking.
But this is just stupid anyway. If people weren't ment to link between sites it would have been called the World Wide Line, or the World Wide Collection-of-Sites-that-You-Have-to-Remember-Eve
I see Plextor is getting into the DVD-ROM market too. I'm just hoping the make a SCSI CD/DVD (re-)writer.
I will second that the drive is very quiet. But seems to resonate my Lian-Li 60 at some parts of a burn. Rather annonying.
I'd rather have a white box version. I don't need Windows software, or anything else the came with it.
Yeah, "proprietary" and "patented" are not words that make me want to buy things.
It may have been, but as you see, I'm trying to compile 2.2.5, not a CVS snapshot. As a matter of fact, they almost surely have been fixed in the CVS, as the patched I liked to had questions about if they should be committed the the CVS.
Sure enough, someone else had this problem with a CVS version of GCC 3.2.
Looks like Ulrich Drepper didn't think the patch that was proposed was quite right, and has his own.