[sdiy] Sblive AUD_EXT

[Linium]

Le Lundi 30 Septembre 2002 17:03, vous avez écrit :
> Forgot to mention, SB Live! digital output (S/PDIF) is resampled, it's not
> bit-accurate. You need and want an S/PDIF output which will not alter the
> data.

Damned, you're right. But it is when you use the card at 44.1 khz, isn't it ? 
The emu10k1 chip work only at 48 khz.
So if you use the card at 48 khz it should be fine, BUT it is not sure the 
signal remains unaltered anyway. 

> The GP outputs AFAIK just set some switches on/off (like connect the
> optical TOSLINK receiver to S/PDIF input or connect the coaxial input to
> S/PDIF input in Live platinum external box). For you they are as usefull as
> lets say RS232 control/status lines (yet some people use them for
> communications with external devices instead of the data lines). Digital
> means just they have discrete values "0" or "1", they are no data streams.

I think you confuse with GP INPUTS that are presents (GPI1 and GPI2) wich are 
effectivly what you describe and confirmed by this thread on usenet:

http://groups.google.fr/groups?hl=fr&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=3891CF49.46224BA8%40s3group.com.pl

But still there the unexplained outs.

> Also even though there seems to be multiple SPDIF outputs they can't be
> used with Windows drivers. MIDI output is the only useful output signal
> from EMU10K.

There are a some web pages stating the opposite. 
First there had been the trick of using APS driver instead.
Then you could change an eprom chip which say what card you have.
And it seems there is the possibility to use alternative driver on windoz 
that were made from open source informations available.

Some infos:
 
http://www.digit-life.com/articles/livetolive51/
http://w1.910.telia.com/~u91003452/live/advanced_modifications.htm



http://listen.to/sblive  -> has a good link page notably the TTT project


Linium