Hello, I'm planning on building a mythtv system. I have a receiver and speakers already setup. I have some questions about connecting a sound card to the receiver and which sound card will work best for my setup.
I want to simply hook the sound card up to the receiver and have all sound processed by the receiver and play out of my speakers that includes DTS and dolby digital from DVDS as well as standard pcm from mp3s, games, and regular mpgs or avis on my harddrive. What kind of connections do I need to make from the sound card to the receiver for this setup? Is an SPDIF connection enough or an optical? Does the spdif/optical only pass through dvd audio so I would need to hook up my analog outputs to the receiver somehow to get pcm sound? I have heard that some people have been able to do use just one digital output and change decoding settings on their receiver depending on the sound source. How does that work? Anyway, I am looking at the following sound cards: Chaintech av710 m-audio revolution 7.1 audigy 2 ZS intel 925x motherboard with the high definition audio My main point of confusion is what sort of features i need on the soundcard to achieve what I want above. The chaintech is only $25 and it has a digital output. Is that enough? The audigy seems like it might be overkill since I just want the soundcard to pass the audio straight through. I heard the intel high definition audio can sample everything up to dd. Would that simplify my life? Thanks a lot in advance for the help, Kareem
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