DVD Drive - Digital or Analog

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Seraphic

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Hi,

I have the below DVD drive and it has internal audio out for both Analog and Digital. My motherboard has internal input for both Analog and Digital. Question is, do you have plug in both Analog and Digital or one or the other? If one, would have to go with digital. However, the plug for digital out on the DVD seems to be 2-pin, and the plug for the digital in on the motherboard, is 3-pin. I tried looking for something like this on the web, but could not find anything.

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Digital input on motherboard is on the bottom right (red plug)

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You don't need to connect any cables, other than the IDE and Molex power cables, to the DVD drive. The computer actually gets a digital output directly from the IDE cable.
 
Are you sure? I think my last system (long gone now), had the analog audio from the dvd plugged directly into the sound card.
 
I've been using only the IDE cable for the past few years. I've never ran into any problems listening/extracting music from my DVD drives.
 
ColdNeutron said:
tiraides is correct. all you need is the ide and power cable. it's called digital audio extraction. it's software dependent. that is, the os and playback software have to support it. windows has supported it since 98SE and mediaplayer 7. it's the default for xp. here's some more info: http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.aspx?i=129
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Pretty much all media players read the data from the disc and then decode it. You don't gain anything from using the hardware built into the player.

Are they even putting play buttons on optical drives these days?
 
I haven't connected an analog CD audio cable in, oh, 8 years or so.
 
Yeah, but you didn't really need it and it may not have even been used.

Seraphic said:
Are you sure? I think my last system (long gone now), had the analog audio from the dvd plugged directly into the sound card.
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Not since WIN98 have we needed to actually plug in the audio cable from an optical to the mobo or soundcard.
 
retrorocketz said:
I do hand to face every time I see that someone is still using those cables.
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Yeah I answered that very question to an extremely advanced tweaker about 6 years ago on another forum. I was just floored that this user didn't know that but oh well there are just some *things* that all of us do not know. Learn something every day :cool:
 
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