S/PDIF on Video Card

[bjp999]

I was setting up a media PC and noticed that my ATI video card has a coax S/PDIF out. Seems weird to find it on the video card instead of the sound card. There are no digital connections from sound card to video card. Documentation is extremely light.

How does the S/PDIF out work from the video card? Seems unlikely it would be equivalent to a sound card. What's the deal?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Link to card?

 

[bjp999]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Link to card?

ATI 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder, look at page 22 titled "To display your PC output on a High Definition TV".

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: bjp999

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Link to card?

ATI 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder, look at page 22 titled "To display your PC output on a High Definition TV".

Hmmm, I haven't used one of these before.

Have you tried hooking it up and it didn't work?

 

[Steve]

I'm guessing it's a pass-thru, whatever content is being streamed into the card (either through A/V IN or CATV) goes out through there to the appropriate device (your receiver).

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: sm8000
I'm guessing it's a pass-thru

You may be able to select the card as a sound output device.

 

[tomt4535]

Have you tried hooking it up to anything? The card came with the red cable with the HDTV out on it, that cable has the orange connector for hte S/PDIF