I've solved my DTS-on-the-server problem in a round-about way, which comes with some advantages...
I bought a 5.8GHz AV Sender and a Toslink-to-coax S/PDIF converter. The surround receiver in my hi-fi setup has a Toslink output (from whichever of its digital inputs is currently selected). I pass that Toslink output through the Toslink-to-coax converter and into the AV transmitter's 'video' input. Down in the home-office, where the SqueezeCenter PC resides, I connect the 'video' output from the AV receiver to a spare coax S/PDIF input on the surround receiver located nearby. So now I don't need to use the awful SqueezeSlave or SoftSqueeze in sync with the hi-fi SB3 - I just run the hi-fi SB3 'solo' (upstairs), and receive its Toslink output back down in the office via the AV sender! DTS tracks now decode correctly on the office surround receiver, so I'm chuffed. And of course the downstairs sound is perfectly in sync with upstairs, without any skips, pauses or bad sync that you get with SqueezeSlave. Another advantage of this method is that the stereo audio I now hear in the office is gain-adjusted (from track gain), something SqueezeSlave doesn't do. So I win on several levels! Incidentally, I chose 5.8GHz (over the more common 2.4GHz, which should also work) because the 2.4GHz band is a bit crowded in my house, with the WLAN, three cordless phone handsets, and the microwave oven. The AV Sender was under AUD100, and the Toslink converter under AUD30, so they cost me less than a top-end sound card would have, and anyway I couldn't find a soundcard manufacturer who would guarantee bit-perfect playback from SqueezeSlave. Daniel -- DanielTheGreat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DanielTheGreat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13031 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39754 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
