spdif pins

Somehow I can't see original message on google groups.

My question is simply about pins in this case 1 pin.

Is 1 pin connect to the wire or two ?

Usually there is a plus and minus when it comes to eletricity/electronics.

Looking at the cables there seems to be 1 pin and then something circular.

(If it wasn't for the damn pictures I would have no idea how many pins/wires actually run through these spdif cables.)

There is no textual description of the cables themselfes, how many wires do they contain ?!?!?!

Please explain how the pin on the motherboard is connect to cable... or pins in case there are two or multiple involved.

The wiki does not explain this.

I must:

1. First be sure how many pins are attached to the cable.

2. How many encoded signals travel over the cable.

3. The encoding used over the cable.

Why and how would there be 1, 2 or multiple signals.

Very vague description on wikipedia as far as I can tell.

Just need some simple yes/no answers to how this is supposed to work.


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S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface)[1][2] is a type of digital audio
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does not answer my question.

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interconnect used in consumer audio equipment to output audio over reasonably
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does not answer my question.

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short distances. The signal is transmitted over either a coaxial cable with RCA
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does not answer my question.

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connectors or a fibre optic cable with TOSLINK connectors. S/PDIF interconnects
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does not answer my question.

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components in home theatres and other digital high-fidelity systems.
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does not answer my question.

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S/PDIF is based on the AES3 interconnect standard.[3] S/PDIF can carry two
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May have to look into AES3/

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https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES3
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Very little information as well.

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channels of uncompressed PCM audio or compressed 5.1/7.1 surround sound (such as DTS audio codec); it cannot support lossless surround formats that require greater bandwidth.[4]
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Two ?!?!?!?!?!? How the **** does it do two over 1 wire ?!?!? Sounds weird...

Interleaving of samples ?!??!?!?

No explanation given so does not answer my question.

I rest my case for now.

Bye,
Skybuck.