SPDIF capture device?

[joe mcguckin]

RME makes a PCI card that has SPDIF, AES/EBU and TOSLINK i/o.

DIGI96/8.

Linux drivers for this card are available, so with a little porting effort
on someone's part, you'd have a very high quality sound interface for
FreeBSD.



On 6/21/04 9:32 AM, "Richard Hodges" <rh at matriplex.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Ing.Richard Andrysek wrote:
> 
>> Hi Richard,
>> 
>> I've read your question about SPDIF capture device on freebsd. I am
>> currently looking for similar device.Have you found such one? Can you
>> access subcode etc.?
> 
> Sorry, I never did find anything immediately useful for SPDIF capture. I
> did find a large number of false leads, though.  These were mainly audio
> cards and chipsets that claimed to have SPDIF input, but the companies
> either refused to provide information or to even reply at all.
> 
> Andrew Gordon had an interesting idea, to use something like this:
> http://www.gigatechnology.com/usbio.html
> 
> If I had not solved my SPDIF problem (manufacturer documentation error), I
> probably would have build a capture device around some microcontroller, or
> maybe even a PLD connected to my host's parallel port.
> 
> If you also want to capture the raw bits for testing your framing and
> subcodes, you may see the same kind of difficulties I had :-(
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> -Richard
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