From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 02:20:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D652B16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:20:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.via.net (mail.via.net [209.81.9.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E7643D46 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:20:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@via.net) Received: from [209.81.2.10] (monk.via.net [209.81.2.10]) by mail.via.net (8.12.9p1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id i5N2HS18092099; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:17:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@via.net) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:17:30 -0700 From: joe mcguckin To: Richard Hodges , "Ing.Richard Andrysek" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20040621092245.Q86863@mail.cheapline.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPDIF capture device? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:20:07 -0000 RME makes a PCI card that has SPDIF, AES/EBU and TOSLINK i/o. DIGI96/8. Linux drivers for this card are available, so with a little porting effort on someone's part, you'd have a very high quality sound interface for FreeBSD. On 6/21/04 9:32 AM, "Richard Hodges" wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Ing.Richard Andrysek wrote: > >> Hi Richard, >> >> I've read your question about SPDIF capture device on freebsd. I am >> currently looking for similar device.Have you found such one? Can you >> access subcode etc.? > > Sorry, I never did find anything immediately useful for SPDIF capture. I > did find a large number of false leads, though. These were mainly audio > cards and chipsets that claimed to have SPDIF input, but the companies > either refused to provide information or to even reply at all. > > Andrew Gordon had an interesting idea, to use something like this: > http://www.gigatechnology.com/usbio.html > > If I had not solved my SPDIF problem (manufacturer documentation error), I > probably would have build a capture device around some microcontroller, or > maybe even a PLD connected to my host's parallel port. > > If you also want to capture the raw bits for testing your framing and > subcodes, you may see the same kind of difficulties I had :-( > > Good luck! > > -Richard > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124