John Molohan wrote: > Dirk Meyer wrote: >> John Molohan wrote: >> >>> Dirk Meyer wrote: >>> >>>> Jason Tackaberry wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Sat, 2007-19-05 at 11:22 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Can I ask, what do you do for surround sound. Checking out the boards in >>>>>> the web I cannot find one with a coax output for audio, currently my Via >>>>>> board outputs surround sound via spdif via coax cable to my surround >>>>>> sound amp. And I definitely don't want to lose my audio quality! >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> A large number of microATX boards (and full ATX boards) have either >>>>> toslink or coax or both. I have a Foxconn G9657MA and it has both. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> My Asus Board has digital audio optional. It is on the board but not >>>> at the backpanel. If you have such a board you need an extra adapater >>>> (10-15 EUR). So even if an Asus board has no visible digital audio >>>> out, it may still have it. >>>> >>>> >>> Do none of the current boards to audio over HDMI? >>> >> Not that I know of. But it could be possible that you can connect this >> internal digital audio to your graphic card to HDMI. But why do you >> need that? HDMI is for a TV and a TV has bad speakers. OK, you could >> go to the TV with HDMI and to your amp with the TV digital out. >> >> >> Dischi >> > Mostly from my hatred of cables. With a digital stb, ps2, xbox, freevo, > stereo amp and a 5.1 receiver I have a complete mess of cables already. > I really don't want even more cables if they're avoidable. I've got a > 1080i tv (which for the price is fine) with hdmi so I'm thinking to the > future when I might have a PS3 maybe and new surround amp with hdmi.
There are a number of PCI-E cards with HDMI, eg GIGABYTE 7600GS HDMI GV-NX76G256HI-RH, Sapphire Radeon X1600Pro HDMI, HIS Excalibur HD 2900XT. They require an internal spdif connector for the neatest cabling, otherwise the spdif is connected externally. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
