Which TV cards do send the audio data via PCI?

[Jacob Meuser]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:33:29PM +0100, Frank J. Beckmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 01:26 schrieb Danny Pansters:
> > On Thursday 17 November 2005 22:31, Frank J. Beckmann wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm thinking about bying a TV card. It must support PAL and and should
> > > handle stereo sound. There seam to be different ways how the audio data
> > > gets into the PC. Most cards use a cable to the sound card. But that
> > > blocks the only line in input. Now I read that some cards send the audio
> > > data via
> >
> > No. If you have a cable inside your box that goes from tv card audio outlet
> > -> audio card line inlet it'll be line1, not line. So you can still use the
> > line channel for extarnal audio that you want to get into your soundcard as
> > the line-in. But not all tv cards have this.
> 
> Few cards have an outlet and the inlet of the audio card is blocked by the 
> cdrom.

IMO, more users would be served by having CD audio DMA'd than by having
bktr audio DMA'd.

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