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WTF is this on winfast nf4fsk8aa motherboard, wierd optical spdif ?
What the **** is this on the last picture ?
https://www.legitreviews.com/winfast...d-review_328/2 4's thing from the left, it's some kind of square port ?! black ?! It's supposed to be some kind of optical connector but it looks totally different than: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF How the **** would one connect to this black square port ?! Is it perhaps a place holder that needs to be pulled out ?! Seems pretty stuck. It's the square thing right next to that round port. Bye, Skybuck. |
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WTF is this on winfast nf4fsk8aa motherboard, wierd optical spdif ?
Never mind I figured it out.
I have two of these motherboards, I went to the brand new one, the backup motherboard. Both are supposed to be second hand but looks completely new. The black square thing is indeed as I suspect some kind of plug that needs to be pulled out. Apperently it's to protect the SPDIF optical port from dust/damage or so. The one of the backup motherboard comes out real easy. But for some reason the one on my main motherboard is stuck. Perhaps glued or fried ?! Not sure. But I will try and pull it out... maybe it can't come out cause of the i/o shield/bracket blocking it... Hmmm... Weird... manual says nothing about this. Bye for now, Skybuck. |
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I took some pictures of this plug:
Link to Folder: http://www.skybuck.org/BlackPlugInOpticalSPDIF/ Link to Pictures (approx 3 megabyte per picture): http://www.skybuck.org/BlackPlugInOp...riction 1.JPG http://www.skybuck.org/BlackPlugInOp...riction 2.JPG http://www.skybuck.org/BlackPlugInOp...riction 3.JPG http://www.skybuck.org/BlackPlugInOp...riction 4.JPG Black Plug in Optical SPDIF Port on winfast motherboard video: https://youtu.be/PtpHfDAXNjk Creative X-Fi Elite Pro 7.1 Analog vs Realtek Audio 97 optical spdif: So far I think I prefer the analog sound, it sounds a little bit more smooth... but the optical is probably slightly better for recgonizing vocals... at least this was my experience when I tested it via hdmi on laptop, which had a different audio chip I think, not sure though. However perhaps the realtek 97 audio chip is of lesser quality... I also recgonized some plopping during switching between audio solutions but that might be normal... so far it does seem to play smooth... but it does require on cpu processing I think so I would not be surprised if during gaming there was more crackling... though I will not be using spdif optical for gaming mostly... cause it cannot do 7.1 for now... only 2 channels available for now but I might experiment with codecs or newer realtek drivers. Let me know any thoughts you have on experimenting with newer codecs and such... I've heard about spdif pass through and all kinds of things not yet sure about that... but it feels cool to get this fiber optic/red light connection working ! =D So me very happy about that ! =D And it does prove this is not scam-tech it does really work ! LOL. Writing this is I wait for the youtube upload =D I will test optical/spdif and upmixing and 7ch stereo with warcraft frozen throne... I was impressed but it back then when I played it on toshiba laptop... not yet sure if it was the audio chip or simply the receiver causing the perceived better sound quality but soon new gaming/experiment might shine some light on that Ok analog vs video link should be: https://youtu.be/oT2wB8PqVtc Still uploading but this means I can leave you for now and finish this posting ! =D Enjoy ! =D Bye, Skybuck =D |
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I took some pictures of this plug: Link to Folder: http://www.skybuck.org/BlackPlugInOpticalSPDIF/ Link to Pictures (approx 3 megabyte per picture): http://www.skybuck.org/BlackPlugInOp...riction 1.JPG http://www.skybuck.org/BlackPlugInOp...riction 2.JPG http://www.skybuck.org/BlackPlugInOp...riction 3.JPG http://www.skybuck.org/BlackPlugInOp...riction 4.JPG Black Plug in Optical SPDIF Port on winfast motherboard video: https://youtu.be/PtpHfDAXNjk Creative X-Fi Elite Pro 7.1 Analog vs Realtek Audio 97 optical spdif: So far I think I prefer the analog sound, it sounds a little bit more smooth... but the optical is probably slightly better for recgonizing vocals... at least this was my experience when I tested it via hdmi on laptop, which had a different audio chip I think, not sure though. However perhaps the realtek 97 audio chip is of lesser quality... I also recgonized some plopping during switching between audio solutions but that might be normal... so far it does seem to play smooth... but it does require on cpu processing I think so I would not be surprised if during gaming there was more crackling... though I will not be using spdif optical for gaming mostly... cause it cannot do 7.1 for now... only 2 channels available for now but I might experiment with codecs or newer realtek drivers. Let me know any thoughts you have on experimenting with newer codecs and such... I've heard about spdif pass through and all kinds of things not yet sure about that... but it feels cool to get this fiber optic/red light connection working ! =D So me very happy about that ! =D And it does prove this is not scam-tech it does really work ! LOL. Writing this is I wait for the youtube upload =D I will test optical/spdif and upmixing and 7ch stereo with warcraft frozen throne... I was impressed but it back then when I played it on toshiba laptop... not yet sure if it was the audio chip or simply the receiver causing the perceived better sound quality but soon new gaming/experiment might shine some light on that Ok analog vs video link should be: https://youtu.be/oT2wB8PqVtc Still uploading but this means I can leave you for now and finish this posting ! =D Enjoy ! =D Bye, Skybuck =D The status on your pictures is: 403 Forbidden Request forbidden by administrative rules. SPDIF and TOSLink have a limited number of channels, and cannot do a really good job of transmitting sound. They do stereo with a decent number of bits (stereo sound should be great). There is a second option to transmit four channels, but with fewer bits per channel. I don't think I've heard of anyone yet, using the four channel mode. The transport can transmit AC3, which I'm guessing is 5.1 mode. That's a compressed mode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital#liba52 http://www.atsc.org/wp-content/uploa...-201212-17.pdf I haven't heard of a 7.1 for TOSLink. TOSLink runs at 6Mbit/sec. I don't think there is any fancy modulation of the light. It's just on and off. The attenuation in a TOSLink plastic cable should be fairly high, and it's not intended for sending a signal a couple of kilometers like a telecommunications fiber and transmitter could. The emphasis is on cheapness. With $1 components and cheap plastic fiber. This does not affect the results, because it's digital. And as long as the transmitted bits are not corrupted, they're "as good on one side of the room, as they are on the other side of the room". The fact that AC3 compression is lossy, means the quality cannot be as good on the receiving end as the signal was before being compressed. It would be a bit like what happens with an MP3. If you play back a DVD, the AC3 can be read off the DVD and sent out the TOSLink without modification. This means the computer volume control doesn't work, but, no AC3 license is needed by the motherboard maker. The NForce2 MCP-T Southbridge, had a hardware DSP for doing AC3 compression. If you had a FLAC music selection with six channels, then you could run that through the MCP-T and from there, go via SPDIF to your receiver and receive all six channels. But, the quality of the FLAC would be degraded by the lossy AC3 compression step. Which would throw away frequencies in order to stick to the limited bitrate. Paul |
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The status on your pictures is:
403 Forbidden Request forbidden by administrative rules. Hmm, It's either a problem on your side. Or perhaps there was a bandwidth resource shortage temporarely. Try again and let me know. On my side everything seems to be working just fine ! One other possibility could be that the web host checks my IP and then allows it. But I don't think this is the case. Also the pictures are quite large, perhaps you are not allowed to download such big files ? Perhaps at work ? or on mobile phone ? Bye for now, Skybuck. |
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The status on your pictures is: 403 Forbidden Request forbidden by administrative rules. Hmm, It's either a problem on your side. Or perhaps there was a bandwidth resource shortage temporarely. Try again and let me know. On my side everything seems to be working just fine ! One other possibility could be that the web host checks my IP and then allows it. But I don't think this is the case. Also the pictures are quite large, perhaps you are not allowed to download such big files ? Perhaps at work ? or on mobile phone ? Bye for now, Skybuck. I have a 400GB/month cap. Late at night, "downloads are free", which means you can exceed the 400GB value. Someone using the same account type I have, has managed to download 1TB in a single month using some automation to precisely start transfers during the free usage period. My usage per month, seldom exceeds 25-40GB or so. So size isn't an issue. The status is still 403 Forbidden. Even the top level of your site returns 403. http://www.skybuck.org/ https://www.skybuck.org/ 403 Forbidden Request forbidden by administrative rules. Paul |
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 02:39:42 -0500, Paul wrote:
wrote: The status on your pictures is: 403 Forbidden Request forbidden by administrative rules. Hmm, It's either a problem on your side. Or perhaps there was a bandwidth resource shortage temporarely. Try again and let me know. On my side everything seems to be working just fine ! One other possibility could be that the web host checks my IP and then allows it. But I don't think this is the case. Also the pictures are quite large, perhaps you are not allowed to download such big files ? Perhaps at work ? or on mobile phone ? Bye for now, Skybuck. I have a 400GB/month cap. Late at night, "downloads are free", which means you can exceed the 400GB value. Someone using the same account type I have, has managed to download 1TB in a single month using some automation to precisely start transfers during the free usage period. My usage per month, seldom exceeds 25-40GB or so. So size isn't an issue. The status is still 403 Forbidden. Even the top level of your site returns 403. http://www.skybuck.org/ https://www.skybuck.org/ 403 Forbidden Request forbidden by administrative rules. The 4 pictures load fine for me, as does the base url at http://www.skybuck.org/. He must have fixed the permission issue. |
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WTF is this on winfast nf4fsk8aa motherboard, wierd optical spdif?
Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 02:39:42 -0500, Paul wrote: wrote: The status on your pictures is: 403 Forbidden Request forbidden by administrative rules. Hmm, It's either a problem on your side. Or perhaps there was a bandwidth resource shortage temporarely. Try again and let me know. On my side everything seems to be working just fine ! One other possibility could be that the web host checks my IP and then allows it. But I don't think this is the case. Also the pictures are quite large, perhaps you are not allowed to download such big files ? Perhaps at work ? or on mobile phone ? Bye for now, Skybuck. I have a 400GB/month cap. Late at night, "downloads are free", which means you can exceed the 400GB value. Someone using the same account type I have, has managed to download 1TB in a single month using some automation to precisely start transfers during the free usage period. My usage per month, seldom exceeds 25-40GB or so. So size isn't an issue. The status is still 403 Forbidden. Even the top level of your site returns 403. http://www.skybuck.org/ https://www.skybuck.org/ 403 Forbidden Request forbidden by administrative rules. The 4 pictures load fine for me, as does the base url at http://www.skybuck.org/. He must have fixed the permission issue. Interesting. Results are browser-sensitive. SRware Iron (equivalent to Chrome 49) can access the site. Seamonkey was throwing the 403. A redirection problem or something related to how his domain is set up ? ******* The "cap" in the four pictures, could double as a manufacturing watertight seal for washing purposes, as well as function as a "dust cap" for the end-user. And the Youtube video - I feel like I'm in a club downtown or something :-) https://www.adorama.com/alc/wp-conte...00289062-1.jpg Paul |
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