my chaintech motherboard is one of the newer ones that doesn't include an SPDIF header. Can any body point me to a cheap and mythtv-friendly card which features digital out (preferably optical out). I would also be interested in finding out what is involved to get optical out working.

Am I correct in beleiving that I can use this optical out for all of my sound( 2 channel music, 2 channel TV, 6 channel DVD etc...)?

Adrian

well not sure about the card, but for what is involved and what works you can look over at the wiki. http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page=DigitalAudioHowTo It's written for the nforce boards, but should be generic enough to follow.

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Xsecrets

I bought one of those digital output daughter boards for my SB Live couple yrs ago. It works like a charm without any configuration. I just plug it in, no changes to anything, and I have total surround.