[vdr] Re: 5.1 digital sound card

[Thorsten Wöll <thorsten.woell@dieterwoell.de>]

Winfast 4sound works with complete ac3.
can confirm too, drivers "out of the box" from suse 8.0...

costs 19,90EUR at snogard.de

rgds thorsten
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carsten Koch" <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>
To: "Malkavian (MHVSS) :[" <eiaorcoj@xa.lg.ehu.es>
Cc: "Video Disk Recorder Mailing List" <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:54 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: 5.1 digital sound card


> Malkavian (MHVSS) :[ wrote:
> >>I do.
> >>It's working here and I have heard of others that got it to work.
> >
> >
> > Please tell me wich ones or how to know wich ones if possible...
>
> I personally have a leadtek winfast 4xsound. See:
> http://www.leadtek.com.tw/www/Web_Leadtek/multimedia/4xsound.asp
>
> I believe any card that is based on the CMI 8738 chip and has an
> optical output should work. IIRC, the Alsa driver module for all CMI 8738
> cards is called cmipci.
>
>
> > Then you are sure (sorry but I want to be very sure) that WINFAST 4x
> > sound card support 6 REALLY INDEPENDANT CHANNELS (5.1, 5 speakers and
> > 1 subwoofer, NOT 5.1 EMULATED by prologic or wathever) BY using
> > DIGITAL OUTPUT (either RCA or Optical) IN LINUX AND WINDOWS.
>
>
>
> I cannot be sure if it supports 6 channels, because I do not have a
subwoofer.
> I am absolutely sure it supports left front, center, right front, right
back,
> left back and all of them independently. I had found a little AC3 test
file
> somewhere on the web that produces sound output on all channels one after
the
> other.
> I am using an optical connection, so I am also absolutely sure that works.
>
>
> I am a bit handicapped at the moment, because we had to tear half my house
> down to get rid of a formaldehyde contamination. I'm sitting in the
basement
> on the floor in front of (except for the router) my only operational PC
> (normally I have 9 machines running).
> I hope I will be able to help you more after October 15th.
>
> Carsten.
>
>
>