[CLUE-Admin] Revolution OS -- next month's meeting

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:04:00 -0700
"Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com> wrote:

> It isn't just whether the output would damage the input section of the
> Altecs (built-in amplifier), it would be the result that we then
> wouldn't have sound for the movie.
> 
> Using a DVD player is the most conservative option, provided the CLUE
> projector will take NTSC video input, or S-Video, or something provided
> by the DVD player. I will do some experimenting here and see if anything
> obvious suggests itself. My DVD player has multiple output capabilities,
> which I've never examined, since I have just this plain old TV.

I plugged the Altec into the front-panel headphone jack on my CDRW drive.

Interesting results. The output level on the SoundBlaster is higher than
the headphone jack on my CreativeLabs CDRW drive. In fact, I had to turn
the CDRW volume pot all the way up, and still didn't get the ear-splitting
volume the system is capable of.

I'm assuming that the headphone jack on your DVD player won't be
appreciably different from the one on my CD drive. I'm now actually
concerned about people at the back being able to hear.

So, connecting my DVD player, the Altecs once again are performing up to
par. While I'm not saying we need "ear-splitting" volume, I think that for
a room the size we're using, I'm not comfortable with the headphone-jack
level.

This brings the question of what video the projector will take. My DVD
player has NTSC, S-Video, and Composite. However, I have cabling to
support only NTSC.

Since I think it's reasonable to assume that Lynn's DVD player has
line-level audio out, it matters not to me whether I bring mine, or he
his.

As long as the projector will take NTSC video, I say use a DVD player.
Mine or Lynn's, it doesn't matter. Perhaps I'll just bring mine, and if
there's a problem with using it, we'll can fall back to using Lynn's
laptop.

jed
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