2012-10-25, 14:57
I was recently gifted a Lenovo G530 which I promptly installed XBMCbuntu upon. While it appears the CPU/GPU of this machine are adequate for my media purposes there is a dearth of worthy media outputs on the machine.
My primary concern is with getting Dolby Digital sound passed to my receiver optically. My wife has a Turtle Beach USB audio adapter for her Windows machine which can pass Dolby Digital signals with the appropriate Windows driver but I am unaware of a Linux driver for this device. What device(s) capable of passing the Dolby Digital signals work with Linux and hopefully also play nicely with XBMC? The only remotely viable option I've run across is the Asus Xonar U3.
My secondary concern is that while I can run the VGA out to my flat panel it seems a possibly better alternative to alleviate both concerns might be a USB to HDMI device that should pass both digital AV in one cable. Linux support looks even sketchier in this realm of devices and I'd seriously question the ability of XBMC to play nicely but am interested to hear if anyone knows of specific devices known to work well for this purpose. I would seriously doubt that a USB 2.0 port has sufficient throughput to pass the HDMI video signal much less the additional digital audio signals.
TIA for any input...
My primary concern is with getting Dolby Digital sound passed to my receiver optically. My wife has a Turtle Beach USB audio adapter for her Windows machine which can pass Dolby Digital signals with the appropriate Windows driver but I am unaware of a Linux driver for this device. What device(s) capable of passing the Dolby Digital signals work with Linux and hopefully also play nicely with XBMC? The only remotely viable option I've run across is the Asus Xonar U3.
My secondary concern is that while I can run the VGA out to my flat panel it seems a possibly better alternative to alleviate both concerns might be a USB to HDMI device that should pass both digital AV in one cable. Linux support looks even sketchier in this realm of devices and I'd seriously question the ability of XBMC to play nicely but am interested to hear if anyone knows of specific devices known to work well for this purpose. I would seriously doubt that a USB 2.0 port has sufficient throughput to pass the HDMI video signal much less the additional digital audio signals.
TIA for any input...