Asus P5GD2 has Dolby Digital Live!!

[parkbench]

http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2293&p=9

You will also find the premium C-Media CMI9880 codec supporting the Intel High-Definition audio, with 8 channels and Dolby Digital Live technology support. The CMI9880 is the only audio solution in this roundup that has a built-in Dolby AC3 encoder, which can actually encode your digital audio into Dolby digital streams that can be output to the SPDIF for Dolby Digital playback. The CMI9880 does this real-time for any digital audio in your system to feed Dolby Digital playback. The rest of the boards in the roundup use sound solutions based on the newest HD codecs, but Asus carries High-Definition (Azalia) audio further on the P5GD2 Premium.

Any chance of this CMedia chip appearing on a socket939 board?

 

[Acanthus]

it certainly would be nice, although im not a huge fan of Cmedias drivers.

Even Cmedias garbage codecs are nicer than realteks trash.

 

[gate1975mlm]

Originally posted by: parkbench
http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2293&p=9

You will also find the premium C-Media CMI9880 codec supporting the Intel High-Definition audio, with 8 channels and Dolby Digital Live technology support. The CMI9880 is the only audio solution in this roundup that has a built-in Dolby AC3 encoder, which can actually encode your digital audio into Dolby digital streams that can be output to the SPDIF for Dolby Digital playback. The CMI9880 does this real-time for any digital audio in your system to feed Dolby Digital playback. The rest of the boards in the roundup use sound solutions based on the newest HD codecs, but Asus carries High-Definition (Azalia) audio further on the P5GD2 Premium.

Any chance of this CMedia chip appearing on a socket939 board?

Sorry to say they are only on Intel boards! But the good news is in March 2005 the new Sound Blaster Zenith should be coming out and that will be PCI Express and have Dolby Digital Live! It replaces the Audigy 2 ZS.

 

[parkbench]

Do you have a link that proves that gate1975ohm? I've read everywhere that Creative has no intention of including DDLive.

Thanks!

 

[slpaulson]

I'm pretty sure that it's encoded in software.