[Nottingham] Capturing SPDIF input to disk

[James Gibbon]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 23:57:06 +0100
James Gibbon <jg at jamesgibbon.com> wrote:

> 
> Anyone know of a soundcard / software combination that can be
> used to record from the SPDIF (digital) output from my DAB tuner,
> preferably to WAV files so I can edit them easily using Audacity
> before burning?
> 
> I know a few soundcards have SPDIF inputs, coaxial and/or optical,
> but I don't know if any of them work well, if at all, with Linux
> in that respect. Any ideas?
> 
> At the moment I record to CDRW using a standalone burner; then
> transfer to disk using cdparanoia. Would be nice to simplify the
> process a bit.

To answer my own question, 9 months later: I bought an Apollo PCI
card with optical and coaxial digital inputs/outputs, and it works
with FC5 and arecord straight out of the box. Happy days!

James


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