Actually there is a clock in the SPDIF data stream. It's good enough for data recovery but it just ain't good enough for high definition audio.
The following link gives a reasonable intro to the coding scheme. http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html snarlydwarf Wrote: > Guess I should explain jitter for grins and cause I'm bored :P > > A DAC receives a serial stream of data. Just one's and zeros: > > 1001100111001 > > The catch is that there is no clock in that data. -- NeilH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NeilH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=822 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24616 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
