Here are your options:
1. Buy a big fat RCA cable (Digital audio, maybe gold-plated, maybe called S/PDIF cable, but in reality it is just an RCA cable) and plug one end into your computer's S/PDIF port and the other end into you Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC-3) receiver or computer speaker's S/PDIF...
>the descriptions say the board has spdif, but the picture definately shows a >toslink. can anyone verify that it is a spdif coax and not a toslink. thanks
Ooof.
S/PDIF is a data protocol for sending digital audio. It can be in either a TOSLINK (optical) or COAX (RCA style) physical format...
>Well, if SPDI/F is technically the coax connector, it's true you don't get one.
>But ironically they label the TOSlink input and output as SPDI/F.
S/PDIF is the data protocol. Coax is one interface style and TOSLINK is the other. (So, when they
labeled TOSLINK output as S/PDIF, they were...
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