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General => Installation issues => Topic started by: maverick0815 on March 29, 2013, 07:11:32 pm
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Right now I got an audigy2 as in my core. But spdif is not working as it should. So was thinking about an alternative. I found a very cheap soundcard with spdif coaxial ...digitus ds-33700 which uses a via vt1723 chip. Does anybody know, of this will work with once 10.04?
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Hi,
From your earlier thread...
On a side note, I have a audigy 2 zs in my core too, which I have trouble with spdif coax sound. in alsamixer, i only see spdif optical and if I turn it off, I get sound on coax, but trying dts for example gives me nasty hissing sounds. I know l3mce said he is working on it ( god knows, he is working on a lot of stuff).
...what is your hardware setup? What are you trying to do? SPDIF and Coax are good for 2.0 pcm, in other words, stereo.
Thanks.
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My core is an older athlon64 on a asrock 939dualvsta mainboard, about 4gb ram and two 2tb samsung/seagate hdd. Right now I'm using a soundblaster audigy 2 zs with a coax spdif attached to it. This worked like a charm in windows..ac3 passthrough and such.
What I'm trying to do is get the sound through the spdif to my sony amplifier, so that I can watch movies. If I remember correctly from what l3mce told me, the audigy is not playing nice with linux because it doesn't report correctly.
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Hi,
What's the model # of your Sony AVR? Does it (Sony AVR) support HDMI in from the Core?
Thanks
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The Sony is too old for hdmi. So far I don't think that I can find another soundcard with coax out anytime soon. The Sony supports only one coax and one optical.the optical is being used by my md.
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Hi,
Did you install the w32codecs?
Thanks.
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no, not yet
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well...sometimes its good to talk things through ...I installed the codecs and now at least I get some sound out with some movies...though with mkv, its only static.
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Hi,
You'll probably need a codec/filter for the .mkv file for whatever player you are using for movie playback.
Cheers.
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Hmmm....I don't think so...the same movies play nicely on my md..optical out to the same Sony amp
I'm thinking of getting a sweex sc015 soundcard. It looks promising..