Re: [Alsa-user] getting optical spdif input into a pvr-250

2005-12-30 Thread Adam Nielsen
> I have a cmedia card with optical input - and I want the resulting > mpeg stream to have full surround.. Most optical/coax digital inputs (at least with common PC gear) are only stereo. In order to have surround you'd need AC3 data sent over the SPDIF connection, and then I'm not sure whether i

[Alsa-user] getting optical spdif input into a pvr-250

2005-12-30 Thread Craig Tinson
new to the list so please bear with me.. have spent the last 7 hours trying to figure this out... this must be possible somehow - I have a pvr-250 capture card that dumps video *and* audio (via a 3.5m jack line-in) to an mpeg stream. I have a cmedia card with optical input - and I want the re