On Saturday 10 January 2009 00:16:04 Justin Smith wrote: > I am under the impression that with multiple sound cards you have the > issue of clock drift, the audio channels would eventually go out of > sync, and this would get worse and worse over time. When only one > sound card is being used, the application can sync the video playback > to the audio device, since video speed is not as evident a distortion. > With multiple audio devices with separate clocks, you would most > likely get annoying phasing and comb filter artifacts, if not a > distinct echo. There are firewire cards that can share a clock in > order to eliminate this problem, but I have not heard of USB cards > that share a clock pulse. Ah, i had not thought of that and it makes sense. Thank you. Would it be possible to have the Linux box do the decoding and send it to a hdmi D/A (if such a thing existed, i only know of HT processors) or a RME multi-channel converter? -- Bearcat M. Şandor Bearcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Jabber: bearcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN: bearcatsandor@xxxxxxxxxxx Yahoo: bearcatsandor AIM: bearcatmsandor _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
