[lug] Ethernet sound card - digital solution

[D. Stimits]

Nate Duehr wrote:
>>Depends on the sound card and available drivers. I believe 5.1 works 
>>well with the sblive, and some others. Probably the Hammerfall cards, 
>>which are pro-studio type cards. One would have to check the exact audio 
>>card to know for sure.
> 
> 
> Well, I understand that.  That's why I asked... folks here seem to
> already be using them since they're commenting on them?

I used to hang out on the emu10k1 devel list when the driver was 
originally being created. I did not personally use the s/pdif, but from 
what went on with the list, I can say with high confidence that the 
feature works on non-custom versions of emu10k1. Perhaps it was Dell or 
Gateway, one of those two using a sblive customized the hardware, and 
broke it for use in many ways...those cards did not work at the time 
with s/pdif, but it may have been fixed by now. As far as s/pdif goes, 
it should work, but the sblive is s/pdif input only, not output 
(Hammerfall on the other hand can do a *lot*, it is a pro audio 
card...but check out what works before buying).

D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com