On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 09:08 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote: > I would recommend that you get a creative labs card, one which supports > SPDIF optical/coaxial out and has 7.1 channels. This gives you as much > range as you will probably ever need, personally I'd like a usb device > with multiple sound inputs and creative make one of those too which also > works in linux.
If you're working with a home theater setup, definitely get a sound card that supports digital output. I personally use the integrated audio in my motherboard, which uses digital out. Seriously, for almost all HTPC use, a whiz-bang card is highly overkill. The best sound card I ever had for HTPC was my old Creative Sound Blaster Live MP3 Edition. It used the emu10k1 driver, which supports hardware mixing (one of the few or only cards with hardware mixing supported by ALSA), and it had digital out. Well supported and all the features you would need. Cheers, Jason. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
