3 Oct
2007
3 Oct
'07
9:27 a.m.
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 11:10 +0530, Tosif Ahmed wrote:
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
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?