On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:20 -0600, Thomas Johnson wrote:
> I'm thinking about turning my desktop into a MythTV box to play DVD
> images straight from the harddrive. I want to hook it up into my home
> theater system, which means i'm going to need a new sound card,
> something with a digital output. I would prefer a TOSLINK output, but
> SPDIF would grudgingly accepted. Does anyone have any recommendations
> for cards that are relatively problem free as far as linux
> compatibility, particularly with digital output, DTS passthrough,
> etc.?

Might want to look into finding a Vortex 2 card. They haven't been made
in years so they should be findable used for next to nothing. Mine has
four channel analog output, and TOSLINK output, fully supported in
Linux.
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