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<blockquote data-quote="lm" data-source="post: 231364" data-attributes="member: 19521">Thanks for the help. I had a hard time believing that, but I've been researching all morning and yep you are right. I'm surprised there has been no standard laid down for 'beyond 6 channels' over spdif. Fibre seems to me like the natural choice from a physics point of view. Oh well. I've hooked up the 8 analog audio lines and everything seems to be working fine. I suppose I'll have to try to ignore the audiophile in me who is frowning and shaking his head.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Your suggestion of using the recievers built in DSP has its good points, but I want a solution where all the 'processing mode' switching is done automatically based on content, and so since my amp doesn't know how to do that (ie: switch modes based on track count...) I'll just be attempting to set up ffdshow to do that. And it seems well equipped for that purpose.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Again thanks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lm, post: 231364, member: 19521"] Thanks for the help. I had a hard time believing that, but I've been researching all morning and yep you are right. I'm surprised there has been no standard laid down for 'beyond 6 channels' over spdif. Fibre seems to me like the natural choice from a physics point of view. Oh well. I've hooked up the 8 analog audio lines and everything seems to be working fine. I suppose I'll have to try to ignore the audiophile in me who is frowning and shaking his head. Your suggestion of using the recievers built in DSP has its good points, but I want a solution where all the 'processing mode' switching is done automatically based on content, and so since my amp doesn't know how to do that (ie: switch modes based on track count...) I'll just be attempting to set up ffdshow to do that. And it seems well equipped for that purpose. Again thanks! [/QUOTE]

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