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Connect Soundcard to DVD drive
Hi everyone, I have sound on board, but I am thinking of building in a sound card in my PC. On the back of my DVD drive I dont see a port to connect the audio cable. The DVD drive is a Hitachi/LG GDR-H10N. Am I looking wrong? CUL8R John |
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Connect Soundcard to DVD drive
Turtle wrote:
Hi everyone, I have sound on board, but I am thinking of building in a sound card in my PC. On the back of my DVD drive I dont see a port to connect the audio cable. The DVD drive is a Hitachi/LG GDR-H10N. Am I looking wrong? CUL8R John No longer needed |
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Connect Soundcard to DVD drive
Turtle wrote:
Hi everyone, I have sound on board, but I am thinking of building in a sound card in my PC. On the back of my DVD drive I dont see a port to connect the audio cable. The DVD drive is a Hitachi/LG GDR-H10N. Am I looking wrong? CUL8R John There is a picture on this page, that shows the connectors you may find. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/printpage/82 http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/imageview.php?image=196 The two pin connector, is digital and is an S/PDIF connection. In the photo, the pins are labeled "Data" and "Ground" or D and G. This Sound Blaster card, has a two pin connector to match that one. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/imageview.php?image=198 SPDIF carries two channel audio, uncompressed. Or, it can carry Dolby AC3 compressed 5.1 channel info (found on movie discs). If you hear nothing but scratchy noises coming into the sound card, it means AC3 encoding is being used. Uncompressed audio would work fine. ******* The second connector on here, is a four pin analog. That is the traditional audio output, consisting of "Right" "Ground" "Ground" "Left". Motherboard audio or a sound card, may have a matching connector. A good receiving device, has a differential input, to help reject noise coupled into the cable. "RGGL" http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/imageview.php?image=196 ******* Some optical drives now, have no connections on the back. You must extract audio over the data cable. This is known as "Digital Audio Extraction". On IDE drives, there is an option in Windows to enable DAE. Device Manager : DVD/CD-ROM drives : your drive : Properties : Digital CD Playback Use the tick box to enable that feature. A music player application may then be able to play music, using data traveling over the optical drive cable. Paul |
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