[linux-audio-user] Re Digital Audio Out on kernel 2.6

[Rick Taylor]

Q <raid517 at fairadsl.co.uk> wrote:

>Yes but... that seems to add another whole layer of complexity to what 
>already seems like a complex state of affairs. How exactly would I pipe 

 Hardly... firewire is about as simple as it gets.

>sound from a little onboard soundchip to a firewre port? My onboard 

 Does your board?

>sound doesn't have a firewire port... The only option after that is to 
>pump the two remaining analoge sound channels to some kind of box, which 
>then had firwire connections going... erm.. where exactly? Why wouldn't 
>I just pump the two analoge channels directly to my amp? Except that 
>would kind of defeat the purpose of what I'm trying to do.

 You can get firewire enabled amps. {Av, surround, etc} There may be a decoder
of some sort.

>I think direct digital decoding is still preferable to any exotic 
>solution such as 'network sound' or sound somehow pumped through a 
>firewire port to somewhere (although sadly my amp doesn't have a 
>firewire port either. It would be cool if it did though) though some 
>kind of complex arrangement.

 This would be networked digital. You could even do video with it.

>I am sure a 'conventional' arrangement should be possible. The question 
>is, as it was before, how?