[mythtv-users] Hardware questions for a MythTV-box

[Kevin Kuphal]

Richard Röjfors wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 13:14 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>Richard Röjfors wrote:
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>>>I would prefer the sound output on an optical spdif cable, is that
>>>possible? It would be nice if the output from the DVD is just forwarded
>>>to the receiver.
>>>Are there any good sound cards around for this?
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>>I think you'll find the Turtle Beach Riviera card a great sound card 
>>with optical output.  I'm using it in mine and it was simple to set up 
>>and can be had at newegg.com for about $25.
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>I can't find the turtle beach card anywhere in sweden :-/ Maybe the
>products are not imported here anymore...
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>I saw rather cheap cards with the c-media circuit, CMI8738-6CH, is that
>well supported?
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The Riviera is a CMI8738 card.  See my lspci output:

02:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

Kevin