Re: [Alsa-user] which cards for AC3 sound over SPDIF with alsa?

[Andrew Van Overloop]

I have a soundblaster live that you can get on www.newegg.com for $31.00.  It has a coax digital output on it, but if you don't want to use that port, get a cheap I/O bracket from www.hoontech.com and you can do Coax and Optical digital output just fine with ALSA and Xine (or any of the other DVD players).  Works fine.  I watch movies with 5.1 sound in Linux all the time.

--Andrew Van Overloop


On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 21:41, Marc MERLIN wrote:

My goal is to hook up the sound  card to my ac3/dts decoder and play DVDs on
linux while getting 5.1 sound on my entertainment system.

I've spent some time  looking at alsa support for AC3  over SPDIF (coax) and
what I found was:
- cards based on cmi8738 will apparently do what I want
- some soundblaster cards may too, but:
  - I just don't think I'll ever forgive them will killing gravis with
    superior marketing and inferior products
  - paying $100-$150 for a spiffy box with lots of things I will never use
    including windows software, seems like a waste.
- I could not find conclusive evidence that alsa supports sending AC3 over
  SPDIF on other cards, but I welcome info in this department


I went to the local Fry's electronics out of lazyness since it's 5mn from
where I live, and couldn't find any ci8738 based cards there.
 
So my questions are:
- any cmi8738 based cards I can pick up in the silicon valley area?
- any other cards/chips that will do what I'm looking for?
- any on line store that may have what I'm looking for?

Thanks in advance,
Marc
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