[mythtv-users] "Do you really need a discrete audio card ?"

[Andrew Close]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Christopher X. Candreva
<chris at westnet.com> wrote:
>
> Tech Report has release an interesting review, comparing the Asus Xonar
> cards to the common built-in Realtek chips, with the low-end ($29) Xonar
> comming out as a worthwhile upgrade.
>
> Aside from the article being interesting, it made me wondering if switching
> audio cards would help with the "WriteAudio: buffer underrun" problems I
> have with untranscoded content, which hasn't gone away with 0.24


Chris,

do you have a link?  did they mention anything regarding pass-through
to an amp/receiver?  i would assume that the cheaper option wouldn't
matter if it was able to do pass-through.

thanks!

-- 
Andrew Close