Re: Recording stuff on a laptop



But what if I record sound that arrives at the laptop as a webstream,
does the soundcard 'convert' this stream before it is stored on the
HD?
Or is the 'stream' stored as it is and is only processed in the
soundcard when replayed?

Previously, on Usenet Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It is important. Laptops are not ideal for this, first, because they
don't have high quality sound cards and, second, because almost none of
them even have a "line in" port at all.

If you are recording from a USB device (USB port), the digital to
analogy conversion is being done on the external device, not the computer.

So for my USB TV-device it would not matter if I record on a machine
with rather modest video power?

When I record music or television on a computer, how important is that
machines hardware for audio and video?


Lars
Stockholm
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