Does anybody know of a USB soundcard for Linux that will allow one to watch movies with Dolby Digital passed digitally to a surround sound amplifier? (Happy to jump through any hoops). I believe they call this "digital pass through"
Background, I have been unable to get the SPIDF output on my Shuttle Zen to work and the analogue sound quality is pretty rubbish. I am currently running with a Creative Soundblaster USB, (although I have tried others), which works great with stereo through the SPIDF to my surround sound amp, but I can not get digital multi-channel format out of it. As a result I use Myth for everything but watching movies and still have to switch to the old faithful DVD player. I can get great results with a PCI soundblaster card but my one PCI slot is unfortunately used by a PVR-250 card. I have also tried changing the PVR-250 for a WinPVR2 USB to free up the PCI slot but the S-Video capture does not work and the composite performance is not good enough for a large screen TV. I am able to make all these things work in Windows including my various soundcards, but where's the fun in that?
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