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Can anyone recommend a good card that will do DD or DTS encoding in hardware?
For the longest time, I used an nforce2 Soundstorm board. It had a hardware chip that encoded everything into Dolby Digital on the fly, both for normal audio and positional. (Obviously, content already encoded with ac3 was just passed through) I've moved onto a more powerful machine, and since nvidia is no longer allowed to do soundstorm anymore (I understand it's some sort of patent or creative eating the supplier or someother), I need to find something new.
I have no need for any analog outputs and my amp can decode both DD and DTS. My current motherboard's onboard sound is ADI 1988B, which has DTS Connect, which sounds wonderful, if only it didn't take up CPU resources and (more importantly) constantly crash the system. The DD-Live was really more for games and expanding stereo audio than anything else, but it was an awfully big difference in sound quality.
Has anything come along to take over where SoundStorm left off without breaking the budget?
For the longest time, I used an nforce2 Soundstorm board. It had a hardware chip that encoded everything into Dolby Digital on the fly, both for normal audio and positional. (Obviously, content already encoded with ac3 was just passed through) I've moved onto a more powerful machine, and since nvidia is no longer allowed to do soundstorm anymore (I understand it's some sort of patent or creative eating the supplier or someother), I need to find something new.
I have no need for any analog outputs and my amp can decode both DD and DTS. My current motherboard's onboard sound is ADI 1988B, which has DTS Connect, which sounds wonderful, if only it didn't take up CPU resources and (more importantly) constantly crash the system. The DD-Live was really more for games and expanding stereo audio than anything else, but it was an awfully big difference in sound quality.
Has anything come along to take over where SoundStorm left off without breaking the budget?