I've been searching high and low, trying to find a studio-quality
dolby digital decoder pc card (with or without actual digital or
analogue outputs (see below)), so far with no luck.

I'm looking for something that can take a dolby digital stream at
input, and decode it into discrete channels that i can then feed to an
equally high quality multichannel audio card with analogue out
(current thinking digigram vx822). ANd preferably with alsa support on
Linux.

Any ideas? The only cards I can find that do decoding are the
soundblasteraudigy series, and no offence to creative labs, but i want
something closer to pro audio quality...

Any suggestions?

reply by email much appreciated, if possible

"darrell berry" wrote in message
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I've been searching high and low, trying to find a studio-quality
dolby digital decoder pc card (with or without actual digital or
analogue outputs (see below)), so far with no luck.

I'm looking for something that can take a dolby digital stream at
input, and decode it into discrete channels that i can then feed to an
equally high quality multichannel audio card with analogue out
(current thinking digigram vx822). ANd preferably with alsa support on
Linux.

Any ideas? The only cards I can find that do decoding are the
soundblasteraudigy series, and no offence to creative labs, but i want
something closer to pro audio quality...

Any suggestions?

Since cards with digital outputs are cheap, I'd consider using a good DD
hardware decoder like the Technics SHAC300 or SHAC 500, and just hook it up
to some card with a servicable DD output. These decoders have been out of
production for years, but have decent converters. You can probably still
pick one up on eBay for not a lot of money.