On 12/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Fishburn</b> <<a href="mailto:dfishburn.mythtv@gmail.com">dfishburn.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> For audio use a SPDIF bracket and connnect to you Digital out header on your<br>> MB. then connect this to your sound reciever. In linux set up AC3<br>> passthrough.<br><br>For my Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard, you indicate: "use a SPDIF bracket"
<br><br>Is this something additional I need to purchase?<br>Do I have to go through ASUS to get it?<br><br>I was just leafing through the user manual on the mobo and it has the<br>normal coloured output lines for line in, line out and mic. It then
<br>says in 6 speaker configuration:<br>Line In -> Surround out<br>Line Out -> Front Speaker out<br>Mic -> Center / Bass<br><br>Do I buy a special cable that takes these 3 separate lines and<br>combines them into a coaxial output that my receiver is expecting?
<br><br>TIA,<br>Dave<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></blockquote><div><br>You can get the brackets off ebay...<br>e.g.<br><a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASUS-COMPUTER-MB-ACCESSORY-SPDIF-OUT-COA-OPT-4pin-SPDIF_W0QQitemZ290188922540QQihZ019QQcategoryZ3701QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem">
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASUS-COMPUTER-MB-ACCESSORY-SPDIF-OUT-COA-OPT-4pin-SPDIF_W0QQitemZ290188922540QQihZ019QQcategoryZ3701QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem</a><br><br>Various other places sell them (including the asus store but they always seem to be out of stock).
<br><br>Ash<br> </div><br></div><br>