[mythtv-users] coax spdif mobo recomedation ?

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Wed Sep 15 09:48:39 EDT 2004


On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:09:53AM -0700, dave johnson wrote:
> i have heard that while the Realtek ACL655 (and 650) can re-encode system audio to a 5.1 signal out the S/PDIF, most other
> integrated sound chipsets cannot ? ? ?

That's an nVidia MCP-T (SoundStorm) feature, not an ALC65x feature
(which is just the AC'97 codec). It's supported by nVidia's
closed-source unstable OSS driver, but the Dolby encoding isn't
supported by the ALSA drivers.

Hamish
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