On 22/04/2021 04:50 pm, druck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of a USB sound card compatible with the Raspberry Pi
> (i.e. Linux) which can do 5.1 surround sound over S/PDIF?
>
> The reason being I've got an old Blu-ray surround sound system which I'm
> no longer using with the TV and fancy using as computer speakers
> instead. The only way of driving it is via optical, and all the cheap
> USB sound cards I've looked at, such as Star Tech, say optical is
> limited to stereo PCM.
>
> I'm after a cheap solution, as if it's more than a reasonable set of 2.1
> computer speakers, I may as well ditch the old system as its bulk and
> overkill for the small room.
>
> ---druck

I use one of these (well a similar item)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384079002059?hash=item596ce479cb:g:q2IAAOSw1g1fZJJ~

HDMI repeater with S/PDIF and/or RCA sound extraction

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Chris Elvidge
England

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