On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:13:32 +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote
Depends on your sound card, if it has a S/P-DIF in connector on the out side of its slot sheet metal and is able to handle the S/P-DIF out of the Nexus, it should work.
You have to play with amixer to get a corredt setting to loop through the data from the S/P-DIF in connector to the S/P-DIF out connector. See the mute scripts in the mute directory for some examples. But note: These _are_ examples
It's a CMI8738 based card, Innoax Audio Extreme 5.1 with both coax and toslink in/out capabilities.
alsamixer has a settings for 'Loop mode'.
The Coax and Toslink connectors are mounted on a separate slot connected to the soundcard via flat cable connector. There is some buffering components on the extra card with the connectors.
and be aware the the sound card never modifies the data streams for AC3 (no resampling, no clipping, no washing of so what ever kind).
Not even setting the 'non-audio'-bit ;)
/Mel