[mythtv-users] Re: Capturing 5.1 audio

[Steve Adeff]

On Monday 14 November 2005 03:06, Tony Lill wrote:
> Been looking into this myself. Basically, you need a soundcard that can
> record the AC-3 signal from coax, and you need a video capture device
> that does NOT encode audio into the datastream you get from
> /dev/video. This is basically anything except the PVR-XXX cards. And of
> course, you need some way to get the AC-3 datastream to your
> receiver. Make sure that someone's actually gotten recording under
> linux to work before you shell out your money. From what I've read, it
> can be a bit tricky.
>
> I've got an amd64 motherboard that has digital coax in and out (using
> the nforce4 chipset). As soon as I verify that it can capture an AC-3
> datastream under linux, I'm thinking of grabbing some bttv supported
> card cheap off e-bay, or maybe a Matrox Marvel G200, if it will work
> on the amd64.

is there a device that can capture and encode such that I can mux an ac3 
source with it?

Steve