Hallo, Bearcat M. ??andor hat gesagt: // Bearcat M. ??andor wrote: > I'm slowly building a hi-fi surround system around Trends Audio products. They > have a nice, little, stereo usb DAC. I am really only looking at wanting 4 > channels for now. I have something like 8 usb2 ports on this computer so i > have plenty. > > Can i have my player (xine or mplayer or what have you) decode the signal be > it dolby digital, dts, or the blu-ray formats (ha) into channels and then send > (right and left) out of one usb port and (right rear and left rear) out of a > second usb port to a pair of these stereo DACs. I assume if i eventually > wanted an 8 channel system i could so the same thing with more channels? To make a long story short: Forget it! Google "el cheapo soundcard" for the long story. It's better to invest in a real multi channel soundcard, something like the M-Audio Delta 1010. Ciao -- Frank _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user