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  1. Re:What else to use though? by slamb · · Score: 2 · on Do Manufacturers Adequately Support Their Products?
    I've been trying to figure that out myself.

    Here's Intervideo's WinDVD compatibility list (shows a lot of cards support 5.1 and S/PDIF). I would assume that other cards would work fine with WinDVD if they support it, but I skipped over all the ones in the list that don't have those checked.

    Here's Neoseeker's audio card reviews. Links to other review sites as well. PC AV Tech seems good as well.

    And the list of ones I'm still looking at:

    • Midiman's Delta Series. These are professional cards, but the bottom ones might be affordable (the Audiophile 2496 in particular). Good Linux support. I'm considering going all the way and getting the Delta 66 (quite expensive...one place has it at $350) to be sure I have something that works. The audio quality would be much, much better than I need for sure. One thing I'll certainly check out more before spending all that money: I don't know if the Windows drivers support consumer game APIs like EAX and such. None of the professional cards mention this and I'm not sure if it's a "of course, even the consumer cards do that, why bother to mention it" or a "these are for recording, not games" sort of deal.
    • Philips Acoustic Edge 705 and 706. These looked pretty good in a review site. I haven't checked Linux support.
    • Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. One review site said they had crappy drivers as well (stability problems under 95/98), so I'm not too likely to get this one. It was an old review, though. I hadn't realized Turtle Beach was in danger of going out of business.
    • Hercules Game Theater XP. This wasn't on my list before; thanks for the tip.
  2. Lets Compare. by jarodss · · Score: 0, Redundant · on Ethernet MP3 Player

    System Requirements

    Rio Receiver

    Windows 98, Windows 98SE, 2000, Millennium

    Audiotron

    Windows 98 / Millennium / NT 4.0 WorkStation / Windows 2000 Professional

    SliMP3

    Linux, Windows or MacOS.

  3. no HD or CD but its cheap and networkable by discovercomics · · Score: 1 · on Linux Based MP3 Stereo
    I cant see spending almost a grand for something with a puny HD. I have over 100 CDR's of mp3's I have ripped from CD's I owned and would like to have a small quiet interface to my stereo. I would like to just leave the MP3's on the PC and use ethernet to connect to the unit by the stereo.

    The closest thing I can find so far is the Audiotron from turle beach. It seems to be basicly a windows only interface but from the faq

    As a reminder, we do not support any networking or configuration issues other than Windows, but here's a configuration that we've used with the AudioTron successfully. We did not notice any hicupps or sharing issues. We have successfully used the audiotron with Redhat 7.0, samba version 2.0.6 and dhcp 2.0pl5.
    it looks like you can interface to linux as well. This is the device that appears rebranded by several other manufactorers. Think Geek has them here The audiotron runs around 300.00 bucks and I could throw a 60 gig drive in the puter and be set for only around $400.00-500.

  4. Re:digital only sound card please by xjesus · · Score: 2 · on What Audio System Powers Your Home Theater?

    The question i have for you is, what source on your computer is going to generate 5.1 mutlichannel digital data? Most likely some sort of DVD movie or game right? well it's up to the software decoder to do something with the digital surround tracks, and it wouldn't be that hard (theoretically) to have that multi-channel data sent to something like a sound blaster live with digital out.

    ok, after checking out the Turtle Beach website, their new Santa Cruz card can be had for $100 and mentions the capability of outputing Dolby Digital on their 'versajack' digital output connector. No optical, but i could give you a fairly simple circuit that would to the the conversion from electrical to optical (if you don't have RCA digital inputs on your stereo). I'm sure other manufacturers will probably have support for mutlichannel digital output soon. Of course this assumes that you are running Windows in order to use thier drivers.