On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:13:32 +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote > Depends on your sound card, if it has a S/P-DIF in connector on > the out side of its slot sheet metal and is able to handle the > S/P-DIF out of the Nexus, it should work. > > You have to play with amixer to get a corredt setting to loop > through the data from the S/P-DIF in connector to the > S/P-DIF out connector. See the mute scripts in the > mute directory for some examples. But note: These _are_ examples It's a CMI8738 based card, Innoax Audio Extreme 5.1 with both coax and toslink in/out capabilities. alsamixer has a settings for 'Loop mode'. The Coax and Toslink connectors are mounted on a separate slot connected to the soundcard via flat cable connector. There is some buffering components on the extra card with the connectors. > and be aware the the sound card never modifies the data > streams for AC3 (no resampling, no clipping, no washing of so what > ever kind). Not even setting the 'non-audio'-bit ;) /Mel
