From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Worm Mortensen Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 16:42:02 +0000 Subject: Re: Sound card with S/PDIF input (and output) wanted 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 Hi, On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Oliver Helmling wrote: > > Can it really be true that there exists no useable sound card (except f= or > > the in Europe very expensive Turtle Beach Pinnacle card) with S/PDIF in= put > > that is supported by Linux? Either by OSS/free or ALSA. The only thing I > > have found is: > what do you mean with S/PDIF? I mean Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format (as far as I remember :-) ). > normally OSS supports quite a lot of soundcards. Yes - I asked if anyone know any supported soundcard except for the mentioned that can read data from an S/PDIF port without modifing it. > i=B4ve got a soundblaster awe 64 and it works great. As far as I know it has no digital input and if it has I am sure that it spoils what it reads on it. Christian