Alan Cox alan@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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