Am Montag, 25. November 2002 13:58 wurde geschrieben:
I heard of USB speakers, could this be a valid
solution ?
Are they supported under linux ? If yes which kind of models ?
they're basically usb audio devices with amp and speaker in one
box - so pretty much all of them work out of box (even the harman
kardon ones that don't work with windows)
Thanks for the infos, but has anyone tried to work with more than
one signle stereo speakers set at time ?
I fear that bandwidth problems could arise when using 8 channels.
(AFAIK USB1 is 12Mbit)
I am working with Emagic's EMI 2|6 (2 in 6 out) and it works absolutely
perfect on USB1.1 busses with alsa-cvs, so bandwidth seems to allow for 6
channels. I even used two of them via an USB expansion card. no problem,
once you get your data into an interleaved stream (see ac3dec-sources).
It's not cheap, though, but's got brilliant sound (see
http://www.niklaswerner.de/Assets/emi26test/ ).
AFAIK the usb-interfaces on modern PCs do supply the 12MBit per channel
and not per hub.
have fun*
Niklas