[mythtvnz] Need recommendation for USB audio device

[Nick Rout]

If you can find a Xitel Hifi Link Pro it works fine for me
(mythbuntu). Has optical and and coax digital out as well as RCA
analogue (stereo only) out.

Finding one is the tough part as they don't make them any more.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:55 PM, James Gray <james6.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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