On 22/04/2021 17:13, Andy Burns wrote:
> druck wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> You can't do true 5.1 over S/PDIF, so you'd need a USB device that could 
> encode to compressed DTS or AC3

That's useful to know, explains why the cheap ones don't do it.

>> I'm after a cheap solution
> 
> I think you'll struggle, just maybe something like this?  Double-check 
> it can do what you want ...
> 
> 

Yes, I could get a fairly decent set of speakers for that.

---druck

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