8 Oct
2003
8 Oct
'03
8:19 a.m.
Q <raid517(a)fairadsl.co.uk> wrote:
But 'piping sound out via any other audio capable
cable' isn't really
the answer I was hoping for. SPDIF passthrough - and digital sound in
general - to an external dolby digital amplifier is a whole different
kettle of fish than that, as it involves a considerable amount of post
processing power on behalf of the digital amplifier. There is no true
5.1 (or indeed 7.1) audio playback - and subsequent channel
seperation/decoding without some direct form of digital link. Without
Firewire and USB are pretty digital. Firewire can cart about huge
amounts of information accurately and precisely. {DVD sound, video,
etc...} Both of them are capable of network connections.
this all you get is a kind of dumb (literally) analoge
reproduction of
whatever the soundcard throws at it. There is no 'intelligent'
Straight network cables can manage to convey information fairly accurately.
It seems to me that your "digital" connect is only a conduit for information
that's encoded and decoded at either end. I'd think the "intelligence"
to
be an attribute attributable to the server and client.
processing at all.
Your external amp *is* doing the processing.
But it does make me wonder... If Redhat could do it,
then surely there
I'm quite sure it's possible.