On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:37:57PM +0000, Rob Weir wrote: > Oh, ok. I was under the impression that the digital connector was > pretty standard these days. I have a miscellaneous TEAC CD-ROM drive > and I'm using the digital connector with my SBLive and it works fine. > IIRC, it worked with just the analogue connector too.
S/PDIF output is much more common than input for some reason. I was looking around for something to accept S/PDIF input from my 24-bit outboard ADC, and the choice seemed to be: 1) Mid-range and upwards Soundblasters 2) CMI8738-DX or -MX based cards (NOT -SX or -LX) 3) Really expensive cards which often use the same chip as a cheaper one but have more connectors, cost two or three times as much and still want you to buy an extra little daughter board to connect the S/PDIF I/O. Soundblasters have the aforementioned FS-unfriendly problem and also apparently resample everything to 48kHz, so CMI8738 it was. There are still driver problems, both in Windoze and Linux, but at least in Linux it's possible to hack round them. In Windoze, it screws up the S/PDIF recording when you update your modem drivers... Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]