>Hi all, > >I was just wondering if RME Hammerfall can be used for Dolby surround >output via its optical (SPDIF) output going into an AC-3 decoder. Is
AFAIK, the S/PDIF output is always stereo, never AC-3. I don't know much about AC-3, but I don't know of any way to get anything but 2 channel i/o from the S/PDIF side of the Hammerfall. There may be ways to do this that have to do with generic S/PDIF settings. >this something that is supported in the current drivers (in Win/Mac >obviously since Linux drivers are not ready yet)? The Hammerfall drivers work and have done for at least 2 years. The H-DSP driver, which is mostly a modification of the Hammerfall driver, should be ready by the middle of next week unless there are unexpected suprises.
