Ah screw it, I'm giving up and buying a Terratec Aureon 7.1 soundcard in
the morning. It is explicitly listed on the ALSA matrix as having
supported digital in and digital out sound.
The only problem is, what is the module name for these cards? All
refference to module names for any soundcard appears to have been
removed from the alsa site...
How will I know what module/s to load if I have no idea of the module name?
Q
Q wrote:
> Yes but... that seems to add another whole layer of complexity to what
> already seems like a complex state of affairs. How exactly would I
> pipe sound from a little onboard soundchip to a firewre port? My
> onboard sound doesn't have a firewire port... The only option after
> that is to pump the two remaining analoge sound channels to some kind
> of box, which then had firwire connections going... erm.. where
> exactly? Why wouldn't I just pump the two analoge channels directly to
> my amp? Except that would kind of defeat the purpose of what I'm
> trying to do.
>
> I think direct digital decoding is still preferable to any exotic
> solution such as 'network sound' or sound somehow pumped through a
> firewire port to somewhere (although sadly my amp doesn't have a
> firewire port either. It would be cool if it did though) though some
> kind of complex arrangement.
>
> I am sure a 'conventional' arrangement should be possible. The
> question is, as it was before, how?
>
> Q
>
> Rick Taylor wrote:
>
>> Q <raid517@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> But 'piping sound out via any other audio capable cable' isn't
>>> really the answer I was hoping for. SPDIF passthrough - and digital
>>> sound in general - to an external dolby digital amplifier is a whole
>>> different kettle of fish than that, as it involves a considerable
>>> amount of post processing power on behalf of the digital amplifier.
>>> There is no true 5.1 (or indeed 7.1) audio playback - and subsequent
>>> channel seperation/decoding without some direct form of digital
>>> link. Without
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>> Firewire and USB are pretty digital. Firewire can cart about huge
>> amounts of information accurately and precisely. {DVD sound, video,
>> etc...} Both of them are capable of network connections.
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>>> this all you get is a kind of dumb (literally) analoge reproduction
>>> of whatever the soundcard throws at it. There is no 'intelligent'
>>
>>
>> Straight network cables can manage to convey information fairly
>> accurately.
>> It seems to me that your "digital" connect is only a conduit for
>> information
>> that's encoded and decoded at either end. I'd think the
>> "intelligence" to
>> be an attribute attributable to the server and client.
>>
>>
>>
>>> processing at all.
>>>
>>
>> Your external amp *is* doing the processing.
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>>
>>> But it does make me wonder... If Redhat could do it, then surely there
>>
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>> I'm quite sure it's possible.
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