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Title: MC with Casatunes XLi card?
Post by: Jonathan DA on July 28, 2010, 05:45:23 pm

Hey all,

Anyone used a Casatunes XLi 12-channel PCI card with MC?  I'm setting up a multi-room system, and like the Casatunes hardware, but would prefer to keep using MC rather than the Casatunes software.  It looks like the card should work with any audio app, but you never know if they have some proprietary hook in there that prevents it.

Thanks,

Jonathan

Title: Re: MC with Casatunes XLi card?
Post by: Jonathan DA on July 29, 2010, 01:42:54 pm

Just for archival purposes, the answer I got from CasaTunes, is that this won't work.  Apparently, there is something in their software that is unique to controlling the XLi card.  Guess I'll go back to considering multiple standard sound cards in my system to do a multi-room set up in MC.

Title: Re: MC with Casatunes XLi card?
Post by: Matt on July 29, 2010, 01:53:14 pm

Thanks for the follow-up.

There used to be several multi-channel cards that exposed each set of channels as a unique line, but I haven't seen this as much lately.

With Media Center, you can route ASIO or DirectSound to any channels you like.  Any output allows you to route to any soundcard.  It's up to the driver to support multiple concurrent connections (and most ASIO drivers do not like this).

At the very least, most soundcards can service SPDIF and analog output (at least at the same clock frequency) at the same time.