[Nottingham] Capturing SPDIF input to disk

[Matthew Walster]

Maybe I'm thinking of MiniDisc, but I thought SP/DIF was designed so  
that inputs could not be recorded externally from digital sources  
that had the copyright flag set... Either DAB or your radio must not  
have this flag set... Nice! I've recorded a few Radio 4 programmes  
(such as the excellent Genius with Dave Gorman) taking advantage of  
the "analogue hole" but didn't realise I could get lossless  
conversion, nice!

Matthew Walster


On 29 May 2006, at 18:22, James Gibbon wrote:

> 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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