Just thinking about running DVD-A off a media pc.

Considering using a soundblaster audigy 2 pci card which has analogue
outs. Up till recently i thought that DVD-A wasn't able to be
delivered digitally, but now i see that firewire can be used for DVD-A
on pioneer and yamaha recievers.

Ideally i'd like one digital output from the pc that can supply both
DVD-A/7.1 surround/game sound to the recievers digital input and have
all the decoding done by the high spec reciever rather than the pcs
card. Can i simply have a firewire out put that tranfers all the pc's
sounds/DVDA etc to the reciever?

Does anyone have a setup like this?

Cheers

The Firewire input use the encrypted M&A proticol (Music and Audio), you can
not connect an AX5 or AX10 to a PC, The new AX10Ai can be connected to a PC
via a USB input for 7.1 though.


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Just thinking about running DVD-A off a media pc.

Considering using a soundblaster audigy 2 pci card which has analogue
outs. Up till recently i thought that DVD-A wasn't able to be
delivered digitally, but now i see that firewire can be used for DVD-A
on pioneer and yamaha recievers.

Ideally i'd like one digital output from the pc that can supply both
DVD-A/7.1 surround/game sound to the recievers digital input and have
all the decoding done by the high spec reciever rather than the pcs
card. Can i simply have a firewire out put that tranfers all the pc's
sounds/DVDA etc to the reciever?

Does anyone have a setup like this?

Cheers