gnome-cd skips

[Jonathan Corbet]

Alan Cox <alan at 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

Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
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