I do have a shuttle sb51g with an Intel motherboard and an ALC650 sound chip, I had to play with Alsamixer to make the optical output to work but now quality is very good and I hear no difference with the digital output of a sblive.
David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hamish Moffatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 2:12 PM Subject: [Alsa-user] ALC650 versus nForce2 > I'm building a MythTV box for digital TV and I want digital audio > output. The two main options seem to be boards with the nForce2 chipset > and boards with the Realtek ALC650 chipset. > > I want stereo PCM output from regular TV programs but I also want AC3 > output from TV programs that have it. > > Is one of these chipsets preferable to the other? Do they both have good > drivers? Will I have to use the non-free nVIDIA driver to get the > nForce2 audio working? > > The ALC650 option is cheaper. I don't want to buy a high-end board if I > have to (I don't need gigabit LAN, serial ATA, Firewire etc!) but I do > want digital output. > > I'm actually looking for optical output. For the archives, the Gigabyte > 7N400 Pro2 nForce2 board has it, and their "audio connection kit" > accessory for their ALC650 boards provides it too. Some of the Intel > chipset boards also have it. > > > thanks, > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
