PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

(^540) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide I t wasn’t all that long ago when the only sounds a PC could produce—other than the noise ...

Chapter 21: Audio/Visual Devices^541 The components included on the sound card to convert sound into and out of digital data for ...

The most common connector on analog inputs is the standard 1/8-inch phone jack that is just like those on the earphones of your ...

card must be able to generate these sounds using a synthesizer chip. Through MIDI signals, an external MIDI device can control t ...

(^544) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide reducedsounddistortionfromtheothercomponentsinsidethePC,buttherearealsodis- advantages. O ...

Chapter 21: Audio/Visual Devices^545 Some of the better-known audio software publishers include:
Sonic Foundry http://www.soni ...

source requires a cable with left and right male RCA plugs on one end and a single stereo male 1/8-inch phone plug on the other. ...

Chapter 21: Audio/Visual Devices^547 are literally cut off, which produces distortion in the playback. This is why sound capture ...

(^548) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Digital Audio Extraction Digitalaudioextraction(DAE)isamethodofcapturingsoundsfromanaudio ...

Chapter 21: Audio/Visual Devices^549 Figure 21-4. The Windows Media Player Figure 21-5. The Windows Play Control mixer ...

(^550) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide  Amplitude As illustrated in Figure 21-6, the height of the sound wave is its amplitude. ...

 Analog sound Analog sound waves, like those in Figures 21-6 and 21-7, are represented by a continuous signal that fluctuates w ...

(^552) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide MIDI files, which have the file extension MID, are not actually audio files but contain M ...

Chapter 21: Audio/Visual Devices^553 RA or RAM RA or RAM file formats are RealAudio files, a streaming audio format developed by ...

(^554) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Internet conveniently. RealPlayer files carry file name extensions of RA or RAM, and Wind ...

ISA sound cards can be especially complicated to configure because they often use a separate set of values for different functio ...

(^556) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide unavailable, drivers can often be found on the manufacturer’s Web site. Frequently a man- ...

Chapter 21: Audio/Visual Devices^557 Most browsers and video cards support MPEG viewing without additional software, but many fr ...

(^558) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Video Terminology Here are some of the terms and concepts that you should know to work wi ...

downloaded so that the playback can begin while the remainder of the file is still down- loading. This allows the user to see an ...