I looked a year ago, and a year before that.
I'm looking for a converter that does spdif optical and/or coax to lets say 6 channels RCA (5.1) line level jacks. I see plenty of digital to stereo but nothing giving 6 outputs. Why is that? No one whats to do this?
I have more than one source that I want to mix together (not select between)
Can anyone help?
I'm looking for a converter that does spdif optical and/or coax to lets say 6 channels RCA (5.1) line level jacks. I see plenty of digital to stereo but nothing giving 6 outputs. Why is that? No one whats to do this?
I have more than one source that I want to mix together (not select between)
Can anyone help?
This has been posted before, but your two options are essentially:
1) Use a computer audio card, something in an M-audio for example could be found reasonably priced used if need be. several brands exist with SPDIF in, 5.1/6.1/7.1 out.
2) rip apart a licensed player that has inputs/ouput and hack your own converter.
If the signal is DTS or something you run into licensing issues which is why you don't see piles of converters.
1) Use a computer audio card, something in an M-audio for example could be found reasonably priced used if need be. several brands exist with SPDIF in, 5.1/6.1/7.1 out.
2) rip apart a licensed player that has inputs/ouput and hack your own converter.
If the signal is DTS or something you run into licensing issues which is why you don't see piles of converters.
I saw on eBay some decoders (DolbyDigital/DTS). Because, you know, that's the accepted way to have 5.1 via SPDIF. Compressed that is.
let me explain exactly what I'm trying to do. I have more than one computer I want to mix into an amp. I don't want to select just one computer at a time, I want to be able to hear all of them at the same time. Right now I have three analog cables coming out of each computer soundcard into a patch board I built and would like to just maybe build a board that is a unity gain multi spdif mixer. Or is this a pipe dream because of cost?
So, to sum it up... a multi spdif input, unity gain mixer to either 6 analog out or coax or optical would do it.
So, to sum it up... a multi spdif input, unity gain mixer to either 6 analog out or coax or optical would do it.
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