[dinobite]

When I think of the word transport, I think of my cd player. The case, the tray, the thing that spins the cd.

When someone says "A PC-based CD/DVD Transport" what is this referring to? The entire PC?

So if anyone could just help me out with the terminology as it relates to PCs, I'd appreciate it, thanks!

 

[Mr.Radar]

A transport takes the audio data from a media (a CD in a CDP's case or HDD in a computer's case) and outputs it in digital form to a DAC. Even though you can't see it, you computer, when playing music, is moving the data off the hard drive, throught the PCI bus, to the memory and then to the CPU, back into memory, then out to the PCI bus again where it reaches the soundcard which then passes it to the digital output. In a CDP's case there is no CPU so it's essentially disc -> buffer -> digital outs but the same thing happens.

 

[dinobite]

Oh, I get it now.
thanks mr radar, you are teh smart.

I used to have a maxell shirt wth that guy getting blown away by the music, but it was an xxl and I'm not. I was pretty upset because I wanted to wear it.