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Carey Carlan wrote:
(Scott Dorsey) wrote in
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We have successfully shot S-PDIF from one building to the next in
downtown Baltimore just by pointing the things out the windows.
Channel reliability wasn't the best and I'd worry a lot about rain
fade, but it worked better than I'd expected and it allowed us to get
good quality audio around.

How did you convert spdif to a video signal?

I didn't. It's a square wave with a 4KHz bandwidth or so. It went
right into the device as if it were video... it doesn't care about
synch configuration or anything. Just like using video DIs for
distributing S-PDIF audio around.

It doesn't meet the specs... the received signal has a lot more jitter
than it should because the edges are rounded a little, but the DAC locked
up nicely to it and it worked out fine. I wouldn't want to rely on it
for anything I was getting paid for or put my reputation up on, but for
home use it seems a fine cheap way of moving digital audio around.
--scott
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