[mythtv-users] surround sound.

[Kevin Kuphal]

Willy Boyd wrote:
> I'm really impressed with Turtle Beach.  For what it's worth, they
> also make the "Audio Advantage Micro", which is a USB stick about the
> size of a thumb drive, that has a full TOSLINK (Optical) output.  For
> the same price, obviously the Riviera is a much more complete and
> solid solution, but for those strapped for PCI slots, the USB is about
> as good as having onboard.  Worked outta the box for me on FC4 with
> nearly no setup (just changing MythTV settings, no driver business).
>
>   
And just for completeness, for low profile cases, AOpen has a Cobra card 
which also uses the cmi-pci driver and works just as well but is 
half-height and still has optical SPDIF out on a second header.  I use 
this in my main frontend with great success.

Kevin