[mythtvnz] Need recommendation for USB audio device

[Jonathan Marshall]

USB 1.1 (12Mbit/s max, usually half this in practise) should happily
handle SPDIF digital out (usually 2 16 bit channels at 48kHz) which is
around 1.5Mbit/s.

Cheers,
Jonathan

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Alan Walls <Alan.Walls at trimble.co.nz> wrote:
> Thanks
>
>  The little research I have done agrees with you for USB stereo.  The
>  quote I read said something like "Almost every USB 1.1 USB audio device
>  works with linux".  Unfortunately I think I need a USB 2.0 device to
>  handle digital data and they don't always have good support.
>
>
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>  On Behalf Of Criggie
>  Sent: Thursday, 10 April 2008 2:03 p.m.
>  To: MythTV in NZ
>  Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Need recommendation for USB audio device
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>  USB audio is nice in that there is only one driver.  Basically any USB
>  Audio card should work fine.  I got one for $7 of trademe and no issues
>  at all.  It had a 3.5mm phono output socket.
>
>  Finding one with optical/coax output is going to be a real challenge /
>  expensive item though.
>
>
>  Alan Walls wrote:
>  > The plan is to connect the USB sound card to my home theatre receiver
>  > using either coax or optical digital connection and use pass through
>  > mode for DTS and AC3 playback.
>  >
>  > Does anybody have any recommendations for what works well on Linux?
>  >
>  > PS.  The system is a MythBuntu 7.10 system.
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