[Mike Rivers[_2_]]

On 11/23/2018 11:39 PM, wrote:
Take a look at this picture, it shows pins for audigy and x-fi elite pro soundblasters:

http://pinouts.ru/visual/gen/sb_audigy2_ad_ext.jpg

This looks like a ribbon cable connector. Is this what connects the PC
card (that goes in the computer) with an external box with connectors
and controls? And you don't have that box that provides connectors that
aren't on the normal PC bracket?

You have a very detailed and complex question, but just for starters:

S/PDIF carries two audio channels

It appears to have three S/PDIF ports, so that means it can carry three
discrete digital channels. But for typical DVD sound, the 6 channels are
encoded in a single S/PDIF stream using something like Dolby Digital.

Before you waste too much time trying to make a breakout cable, do you
have either an old enough operating system or a new enough driver so
that your computer will recognize the card at all?



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