Re: [Freevo-users] Newbe - Which soundcard should I buy???
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:38:54 -0800 Shawn Dowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what it's worth I've used both Soundblaster Live! 5.1 and the > original Soundblaster Audigy 5.1 with ALSA with great success. It has > hardware mixing and good support for 6 channel audio using ALSA > drivers. Depends what you want, though. Neither of those cards will allow a 44.1khz PCM bitstream to traverse it's SPDIF circuit unmolested. My Freevo system is six inches from a DTS capable receiver, so SPDIF is what i want. I bought an Audigy hoping to get there and that ended up being a $50 mistake. Noticed an undocumented SPDIF header on my motherboard. Plugged in a dongle that matched it, it works - but only at 48khz. Bought a cheap Yamaha based card with on-card optical output. Same thing. On a lark, plugged in my old DXR3, works perfectly for coaxial spdif 44.1 and 48, pcm, ac3, dts, all work. But at this point, I'm using a 2U rack mount case and can use only 1 agp slot and 1 pci slot, and i want to keep the pci slot open for an HD tuner some time this summer. I ended up buying a new motherboard that has SPDIF on the backplate (A7V880) and hope that it will be able to deliver multiple rates of SPDIF. I get to figure that out this week. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Newbe - Which soundcard should I buy???
For what it's worth I've used both Soundblaster Live! 5.1 and the original Soundblaster Audigy 5.1 with ALSA with great success. It has hardware mixing and good support for 6 channel audio using ALSA drivers. On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:09:10 +0100, Trollmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey, > Simple question two questions > > - which cheap soundcard should I buy!preferences are Stereo Analog > output with a "relative" good DA converter and the most important works > good with freevo > (could be an old card bought via ebay)?! > - Does the Hercules Game Theater XP works well with freevo? > Thx alot > greetz > Sebastian > > --- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > ___ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > -- Want free stuff? Find out how to get it: - - - - - http://dowler.homelinux.org - - - - - "Hey Fat Mike, did you eat all the food on the ISS?" --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Newbe - Which soundcard should I buy???
Hello Sebastian, you might get an opinion or two here but you're probably far better asking your question on the alsa mailing list I'd guess (freevo uses standard players like mplayer or xine so it's a general linux compatibility issue not a freevo one). Regards, John Trollmar wrote: hey, Simple question two questions - which cheap soundcard should I buy!preferences are Stereo Analog output with a "relative" good DA converter and the most important works good with freevo (could be an old card bought via ebay)?! - Does the Hercules Game Theater XP works well with freevo? Thx alot greetz Sebastian --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Newbe - Which soundcard should I buy???
hey, Simple question two questions - which cheap soundcard should I buy!preferences are Stereo Analog output with a "relative" good DA converter and the most important works good with freevo (could be an old card bought via ebay)?! - Does the Hercules Game Theater XP works well with freevo? Thx alot greetz Sebastian --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
