Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!decwrl!pacbell.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: Jon Hall Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Cd-ROMS on a Network (Sound?) Date: 21 Feb 1994 20:12:53 +0200 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 30 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: <199402211801.SAA15777@mail.soton.ac.uk> Reply-To: Jon Hall NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Return-Path: <@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU,@RELAY.SOTON.AC.UK:J.M.Hall@SOTON.AC.UK> Via: uk.ac.soton.relay; Mon, 21 Feb 1994 18:10:16 +0000 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] To: CDROM-L Redistribution In-Reply-To: <199402211737.RAA13721@mail.soton.ac.uk>; from "elliott@DSEG.TI.COM" at Feb 20, 94 6:32 pm > I'm trying to set up a CD-ROM stack on a Novell network for a > local library. I just got off the phone with a rep from SCSI > Express who says that you can't get audio across a network when > playing multimedia titles. This can't be true, can it? > > I had planned on putting a Soundblaster compatible board in each > of the workstations. Is this now a waste of money? Any advice > would be appreciated. If what you mean is to have the have the networked CD-ROM drive play a CD audio track and automagically have the audio data appear (by some undefined means) at the requesting workstation, then the rep is correct. Think about it. On the other hand, if your sound data is stored as (say) a .WAV file on the data part of the CD which the workstation loads into memory and plays, then there's no problem. A number of multimedia titles do default to using audio tracks on the CD to provide sound effects. Some of these can be told to use .WAV-type files through a soundcard instead (I think the Grolier/SoftWare Toolworks encyclopedia is one of these). This is what you will need to do if networking multimedia titles. Hope this helps. -- Jon Hall | Tel: +44 (0)703 592274 Senior Programmer | Fax: +44 (0)703 593033 Institute of Sound and Vibration Research | JANET: J.M.Hall@uk.ac.soton University of Southampton, UK | Internet: J.M.Hall@soton.ac.uk