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Guido van Rossumb9506291992-04-13 18:38:20 +00001These are some programs to work with the SCSI CD-ROM player's audio
Guido van Rossum4bd41471992-04-14 11:05:40 +00002interface (see cdaudio(3) in IRIX 4.0 or higher; tested only on 4.0.2).
Guido van Rossumb9506291992-04-13 18:38:20 +00003
Guido van Rossumdaea6c81992-04-22 13:39:33 +00004See also the SGI-specific standard module 'readcd', documented as
5"readcd.lib" in the library.
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Guido van Rossumb9506291992-04-13 18:38:20 +00007cdwin.py A trivial window interface to play a CD over the CD
8 player's audio jack. More functionality is left as an
Guido van Rossum4bd41471992-04-14 11:05:40 +00009 excersice to the reader. Needs module stdwin.
Guido van Rossumb9506291992-04-13 18:38:20 +000010
11listcd.py List the table-of-contents of a CD (data CDs will
12 appear as a single track).
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14playcd.py Read audio data from the CD and play it over the
Guido van Rossum4bd41471992-04-14 11:05:40 +000015 Indigo's built-in speker or audio jack. Needs module al.
Guido van Rossumb9506291992-04-13 18:38:20 +000016
17sendcd.py Read audio data from the CD and send it as UDP packets
Guido van Rossum632d4921992-04-15 16:40:12 +000018 over the network (to recvcd.py).
Guido van Rossumb9506291992-04-13 18:38:20 +000019
Guido van Rossum632d4921992-04-15 16:40:12 +000020recvcd.py Receive UDP packets containing CD audio data (from
Guido van Rossumb9506291992-04-13 18:38:20 +000021 sendcd.py) and play them over the Indigo's built-in
Guido van Rossum4bd41471992-04-14 11:05:40 +000022 speaker or audio jack. Needs module al. (Doesn't
Guido van Rossumb9506291992-04-13 18:38:20 +000023 actually use module cd.)
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Guido van Rossum08d96221992-04-15 17:52:18 +000025cdaiff.py Dump CD audio to disk in AIFF format.
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Guido van Rossum4bd41471992-04-14 11:05:40 +000027Note that to read *data* CD-ROMs you must open /dev/rdsk/dks0d4s7 or
28some such special file...