[mythtvnz] Need recommendation for USB audio device

[James Gray]

The Edirol UA-25 does S/PDIF and works in linux, but it might be a 
little over the top for your purposes

Jonathan Marshall wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: mythtvnz-bounces+alan.walls=trimble.co.nz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
>>  [mailto:mythtvnz-bounces+alan.walls=trimble.co.nz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz]
>>  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
>>
>>  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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