On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:05:27PM +0200, Per Mellander wrote: > 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 you should go with mute/cmi8738.sh :^) > 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 ;) This is done by the plugin its self. Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr