[vdr] Re: [PATCH] AC3overDVB 0.1.2

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:39:35PM +0000, Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
> On 06 Feb 2003 "Bläser, Lars" <LBlaeser@hofheim.de> wrote:
> 
> >> I use a very simple coax cable (one wire of a standard cinch
> >> audio cable). Directly connecting the dvb-s out to the receiver
> >> in (coax of coarse).
> > 
> > imho thats no good advise, the voltage of that is to high
> > (TTL), this could damage your receiver/decoder
> 
> Really?
> I thought the DVBs has a standard coax spdif out (talking about a
> rev 2.1 card). And my receiver probably has a standard coax spdif
> in, too. Why not a direct connect?

The difference is 5.0 V to 0.5 V signal level (Consumer S/P-DIF
versus Professional  AES/EBU) ... for the S/P-DIF in of my C-Media
no problem, but for a standard A/V receiver I wouldn't do that.

-> http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html

       Werner


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