From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Helmling Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 16:44:49 +0000 Subject: Re: using linux box as a multimedia center -- best buys? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >=20 > Hi all, I am looking into making my box be a TV/Radio/CD player etc. The > question is -- what to buy? >=20 > I think one of the new Hauppage cards will do the tv/fm thing nicely. >=20 > But what about GOOD speakers and a sound card? >=20 > Anyone used the new Hauppage which does Dolby? hi, with the TV-card i can=B4t help you, but i=B4ve heard from many people among the win9x community that the haupage shhould be good. my tip is look at the S.u.S.E. support database at http://www.suse.com. so you can find out what hardware is supported. S.u.S.E. is german distribution which i use. but the sdb ( how they call the database) should be of general interest. concering the soundcard i use a soundblaster awe64 with 8 mb ram. but the most interesting thing for you is probably that this card has a line out possibility. so you can use your normal stereo amp or whatever to hear music. but beware of the new soundblaster live which isn=B4t supported by oss, a commercial sounddriver for linux. the basic driver comes without support of the wave table built in the awe 64 and costs 20$. the optional feature of the wave table costs 10$. so it=B4s not too much. 90% of the software is gpl=B4ed or shareware. but the shareware just requires a license if you plan to use it in a commercial way and is fully functional without a license. well, now the awe 64 is called awe 64 gold and ships with 4mb ram i think which you can upgrade to 12mb ram if you want to. but be aware of the fact that your pioneering. sound development is at an early stage in linux. --=20 Gr=FC=DFe Oliver