On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:20:28AM +1100, Loki Davison wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Bearcat M. Şandor >> <HomeTheater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? >> >> Have you thought of buying a decent pci sound card? A PCI solution >> would mostly likely be better in almost every way. >> You can choose a level of price quality, and > 8 channel out is easy >> to find. My echo 3g does that fine, with no arseing around and i would >> suspect superior sound quality, if not put and DAC you like on the >> ADAT out... ;) > > I'll second that. For any serious surround you want > matched sample rates and delays, and I doubt very > much if multiple 2-ch USB interfaces can provide that. > > Also the availability of DRM-ed format decoders on > Linux could be problematic, but I'm not an expert > on that matter. > > Ciao, > > -- > FA > > Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica > Parma, Italia > > O tu, che porte, correndo si ? > E guerra e morte ! > I think blu-ray playback works with mplayer/etc. It's just quite annoying https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD Not as annoying as getting multiple usb cards to work though ;) One usb card is horrible enough. In my experience usb audio = evil. PCI/firewire/pcmcia are all ok ;) Loki _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
