Re: 5.1 audio to ht receiver

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On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 12:16 -0800, Shane wrote:
> I've read about soundcards which automatically encode the
> audio to dolby digital or DTS and sent it to the amp that
> way.

No soundcard does this in hardware AFAIK - it's implemented in software
by the Windows driver.

>   However, I understand that particular capability
> isn't supported by the Linux drivers due to licensing.  Are
> there any other methods I can use to send 6 channels of raw
> pcm to the amp. 

There are ALSA plugins to encode PCM to AC3 - check ALSA devel archives.

Lee


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