What's the best sound card for your G400 Marvel?

[Phire]

Been reading the forum and saw lots of problems with the SB Live, so obviously this is not a card for me to get. Is anything with good performance that works good with the G400 Marvel? Another question.. Can you connect the optical out to the in on your Sound Card and record that, instead of using the Breakout Box?

[Dr Mordrid]

As long as the deck supports an optical input I see no reason why not unless there is a s/w incompatability between your editor and the cards optical modules (we always have to give that caveat, don't we?).

Dr. Mordrid

[Phire]

Since i've never owned an optical card, I don't really know how the setup works. Is there another slider within your Volume panel ? Would Virtualdub work with the Optical In?
And the other question still hasn't been answered Which card can I get? The SB Live seems to have a ton of incompatibility problems with the G400 Marvel.

[Walrus]

Phire: Optical (or Coaxial) input/output works as the other inputs. I have a TurtleBeach Montego II/Plus (without W2K support for the digital IO unfortunatly), but under W2K it's all quite easy. I hook the optical out of a laserdisc into the optical in of the card, and set the input to the digital input control in volume control. VirtualDub and AVI_IO both work perfectly well with this.

[Brian Ellis]

All the hundreds of guys who run SB Live! successfully with Marvel and the tens of contributors who do the same, will tell you that there is no inherent incompatibility between them. I've been running the two very well for a considerable time. It does require disabling the SB16 DOS emulation, though.

I agree there is a compatibility problem between the SB Live! and some other PCI boards and some mother boards (notably some Asus ones) and this tends to be exacerbated with two applications: video and speech recognition. I bin there, man!

The problem is that those who say that SB Live! and Marvel are incompatible have not yet recognised where the problem is. I think it may be in the PCI bus and the chipset controlling it. And don't think that an ISA card will help the situation either, because it may not. The m/bs where the ISA bus is an interpreted subset of the PCI bus suffer from exactly the same problem.

Here speaketh the voice of long and bitter experience, cured in an hour by a m/b change.

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Brian (the terrible)

[This message has been edited by Brian Ellis (edited 12 November 2000).]