AWE64 SPDIF Out To Optical Input? 8
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?"
buy a format convertor (Score:1)
For a mid-range solution the Midiman CO3 adds SCMS switching and reclocks the data. If your output is SCMS 10 or 11, you might want to spend the money on this (or just spend your money on something that can output SCMS 00 natively
Storm Platinum (Score:1)
This works great! The Xitel is an awesome soundcard (it's got the 3D accelerated audio stuff.. I don't know if there are Linux drivers for that but it works well with EverQuest on Windows) and the optical output is perfect for downloading MP3s and burning them onto minidiscs so I can listen to them in the car without having to go analog anywhere through the process.
TINAR, YMMV, etc
- Steve
Digital Audio Converters (Score:1)
The only one which comes to mind (caution: I have no personal experience with digital cabeling myself) is the "Midiman CO3" (http://www.midiman.com/new.htm [midiman.com]) which converts all digital audio (AES/EBU, S/PDIF Coax and TOSlink - any sampling rate) to any output (~) incl. setting/deleting SCMS bits - maybe overkill for your application and with about $250 (US) not the cheapest, but to give you an impression of the "high end" solution.
Numerous digital i/o cards out there. (Score:1)
Re:Digital Audio Converters (Score:1)
Converter box/AWP (Score:2)
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
Random schematics links (Score:2)
http://feste.mae.cornell.edu/st reeter/md/elektor.html [cornell.edu]
http://www.stack.nl/~leon/spdif/ [stack.nl]
http://www.fet.uni-hannover.de/ purnhage/dat/spdif.txt [uni-hannover.de]
and
http://members.tripod.com/~Psych/co ax-ttl-md.html [tripod.com]
all grabbed from http://minidisc.org [minidisc.org]