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Digital Audio Coaxial splitter help needed
Jasper - 5/8/08 at 05:46 PM

My home cinema system only has one coaxial audio in and two optical. My DVD player only has coaxial out, as does my new Popcorn Hour media server.

So, can you get a coaxial splitter, or would I be better getting one of these and converting the coaxial to optical and using that instead:

Maplins

McLannahan - 5/8/08 at 06:00 PM

Jasper - How is the Popcorn going? Happy with it so far?

stevebubs - 5/8/08 at 06:56 PM

Get the converter....

If you're using SCART then it may be worth looking for a SCART switcher with digital capability....

02GF74 - 6/8/08 at 06:46 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Jasper
My home cinema system only has one coaxial audio in and two optical. My DVD player only has coaxial out, as does my new Popcorn Hour media server.


is this is trick quesiton?
Connect DVD optical to home cinema optical and popcorn to other optical.

MikeRJ - 6/8/08 at 01:56 PM

quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
quote:
Originally posted by Jasper
My home cinema system only has one coaxial audio in and two optical. My DVD player only has coaxial out, as does my new Popcorn Hour media server.


is this is trick quesiton?
Connect DVD optical to home cinema optical and popcorn to other optical.


That must have been a trick answer as he's just said that neither his DVD nor the Popcorn Hour have optical outputs...

I think the simplest solution would be to use an SPDIF/TosLink converter, they are available quite cheaply now and it means your decoder can manage the switching.

SPDIF - TosLink Converter

[Edited on 6/8/08 by MikeRJ]

Jasper - 6/8/08 at 06:49 PM

Yup - that's the chappy - thanks

Popcorn Hour is playing 1080p movies with full DTS 5.1 sound from an attached USB hard drive. Unfortunately my PC is having problem running Windows Media Center sharing and keeps stopping, so the PCH can't connect to it. So I'm doing a fresh install of Vista to try to fix it (been meaning to do it for a while anyway).

And the Virgin cable broadband downloaded a 10Gb file in about 2 hours this morning ... did an online speed test and I was getting over 18Mbps ... so I'm a happy man