On 23/04/2021 08:23 pm, druck wrote:
> On 22/04/2021 17:37, Chris Elvidge wrote:
>> 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?
>> 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
>>
> Does it do 5.1 on the optical though? The description seems to suggest 2
> channel PCM on SPDIF or nothing.
>
> ---druck

If the HDMI digital is 5.1, why shouldn't the digital optical be 5.1 too?
The RCA outputs have been run through a D/A converter, so stereo.

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Chris Elvidge
England

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