Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> The gnome-cd people had to go to some effort to make it work
that way;
> one wonders what advantages they were going for.
The newer machines don't have an analogue cable for this to save a few cents
Figures. It leads to some interesting behavior - like the CD continuing
to play for a couple of seconds after the disc has been ejected. I
suspect it will drive more users into the "we need extra low latency!"
camp as well.
jon
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