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AWE64 SPDIF Out To Optical Input?

Posted by Cliff on from the connectin'-em-together dept.

Peter Gogas asks something you MiniDisc owners might be interested in: "I was wondering if anybody out there in Slashdotland can tell me how I would connect the optical input of my MiniDisc player to the SPDIF out of my Creative Labs AWE64 Gold? What type of cables and/or equipment is needed to make the conversion?"

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  1. Converter box/AWP by Lycestra · · Score: 2

    I have built one, but i cant find the page I used to make it. There are a few ways of doing it. mine requires only one chip for buffering, and an LED of the right peak frequency. Radio Shack has one, again, web pages out there have the RS catalog number. It requires a 5 volt power supply, which i tapped from somewhere on my board. I put a port on the front that supplies the signal, power, and ground. (digital's ground is common). i then hook up a blue box with an LED hanging off it, tape an optical cable to the led, and put the other end in the MD recorder.

    The EMU chip drives this port, which is only used for midi, so all it is is a digital midi audio out. If you want to play MP3s, use mpg123 and the AWE Wave Player at http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/home/jwittema/awe/awe. html its not perfect (studders), but its free and prolly cant be done on windows.

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    Lycestra
  2. Random schematics links by Unbeliever · · Score: 2

    Here are a few links for converters/strippers/buffers, etc.

    http://feste.mae.cornell.edu/st reeter/md/elektor.html
    http://www.stack.nl/~leon/spdif/
    http://www.fet.uni-hannover.de/ purnhage/dat/spdif.txt
    and
    http://members.tripod.com/~Psych/co ax-ttl-md.html

    all grabbed from http://minidisc.org

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    --Carlos V.