[LAD] Playing Audio Over CAT5

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 11:10 +0530, Tosif Ahmed wrote:
> >The Digital-To-Analog-Converter (DAC for short) is a hardware-part,
> you can
> >not replace it by something software (1). And as the WRT doesn't have
> DACs on
> >the outputs (at least not with the resolution you want), you can
> never use it 
> >to output analog audio signals.
> 
>    Can i not use an an external hardware DAC chip or something to do
> the conversion (i am not sure about the interfacing part here). Or is
> this whole idea of audio over CAT5 wont work? 

you can send a digital audio signal over CAT5, but the D/A at the other
end will be using a protocol that you almost certainly cannot implement
in software.

think about it: soundcards which send a digital signal out to the world
for subsequent conversion to analog have *hardware* to convert the
sample stream into a bit pattern on the wire.

--p