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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
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grarpamp wrote:
> Looks like Creative SoundBlaster made some stuff with SPDIF input.

Many wavetable-based Creative cards resample their SPDIF input.

> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Tom  wrote:
>> There are however masses of very cheap cards based on CMedia CMI8738
>> with optical SPDIF in/out

But as far as I can tell, cmi.c does not support S/PDIF input.

(I touched the Linux driver; I'd be willing to provide information to
any FreeBSD developer.)


Regards,
Clemens