[mythtv-users] Cheap & simple solution for Optical SPDIF output

[Willy Boyd]

Yep, like I said in my original post, the Riviera was one of my first
solid options, and I still may use it someday.  The one good thing
about the USB device is I don't use up a card slot in my ATC-620 htpc
case, and others may like this as well.  Even some of the mobo's that
have a spdif header require a slot insert for the actual TOSLINK jack
(but there are a few with an actual optical jack).

FWIW I turned off "extra audio buffering" in the frontend and that
helped out the delay I was seeing quite a bit.  No other issues so
far.

On 10/11/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> Willy Boyd wrote:
> > I'm posting this for the sake of anyone that might search for this
> > sort of thing, as this was one of those few things I couldn't find an
> > answer online and just kind of stumbled on it.
> >
> > First, some background.  In my backend I have an SB Live! 5.1 card,
> > which can do coax digital sound output, but for my receiver I needed
> > an optical connection.  This presented a couple of options.  First, I
> > came across a cheap coax-to-optical converter:
> >
> > http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10423&cs_id=1042302&p_id=2947&seq=1&format=2&style=
> >
> > But that requires it's own power (as far as I can tell), a coax cable
> > and probably an adapter to get the small spdif on my SB to a normal
> > RCA-type jack... and takes time to ship.  The impulsive part of me
> > just wanted to hit a store and grab something.  So, the next option
> > was the Turtle Beach Riviera, which has a full optical jack on the
> > card, and runs about $30 in stores.  But of course every place I went
> > to just didn't have one.  Then I found myself in CompUSA... they
> > didn't have the card either, but did have this little gizmo:
> >
> > http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/audioadv/micro/
> > $29.99 when I got it at CompUSA.
> >
> <snip>
>
> Just an FYI.  The best audio card I've found to date is the Turtle Beach
> Riviera (about $25 from newegg) with optical SPDIF and out of the box
> support in ALSA.  If you need small form factor, the Aopen card cobra
> uses the same chipset but in a half height card great for small frontend.
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829118103
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829117108
>
> Kevin
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