Re: Digital Speakers
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 12:25:12AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
...
> It's for this sort of reason that I've built a 24-bit outboard ADC that
> feeds my sound card's S/PDIF input.
>
> In this endeavour I have found that sound cards with digital (S/PDIF) i/o
> are few and far between, and mostly overpriced. The only cheap ones are
> those with the CMI8738 chip, like my Trust SoundExpert, which cost about 30
...
I've the same card and a good external DAC/ADC too, soo...
> Software support is patchy too; to get 24-bit input to work in Windoze
> involves loading drivers from three different manufacturers on top of each
> other; in Linux I've had to hack the kernel driver module, and use the
> latest 2.4.21-pre kernel. Result: S/PDIF now works, but nothing else does...
> more work needed!
...if you get this sorted out I would be much obliged if you would
share your findings on the list:)
--
groetjes, carel
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