On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:38:54 -0800 Shawn Dowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For what it's worth I've used both Soundblaster Live! 5.1 and the > original Soundblaster Audigy 5.1 with ALSA with great success. It has > hardware mixing and good support for 6 channel audio using ALSA > drivers. Depends what you want, though. Neither of those cards will allow a 44.1khz PCM bitstream to traverse it's SPDIF circuit unmolested. My Freevo system is six inches from a DTS capable receiver, so SPDIF is what i want. I bought an Audigy hoping to get there and that ended up being a $50 mistake. Noticed an undocumented SPDIF header on my motherboard. Plugged in a dongle that matched it, it works - but only at 48khz. Bought a cheap Yamaha based card with on-card optical output. Same thing. On a lark, plugged in my old DXR3, works perfectly for coaxial spdif 44.1 and 48, pcm, ac3, dts, all work. But at this point, I'm using a 2U rack mount case and can use only 1 agp slot and 1 pci slot, and i want to keep the pci slot open for an HD tuner some time this summer. I ended up buying a new motherboard that has SPDIF on the backplate (A7V880) and hope that it will be able to deliver multiple rates of SPDIF. I get to figure that out this week. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
