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Re: Outputting multichannel sound through the optical link??
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Re: Outputting multichannel sound through the optical link??


  • Subject: Re: Outputting multichannel sound through the optical link??
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:50:20 -0800

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Ryan Walklin <email@hidden> wrote:
> This is ideal, but does require a lot of new hardware. A TOSLINK optical connector is available on all shipping Macs.

But it can't do what you want (uncompressed multichannel audio), and
even what it can do (compressed multichannel audio) it can't do out of
the box because you don't have an encoder for it, and getting an
encoder involves licensing and, at least in the US, patent issues.

--Kyle Sluder
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