I am thinking of building a new home theater PC and this may just be the card I go with. However, as far as I can tell neither this card nor the Asus card have been tested.
Apparently the sound card can accept video from the video card and then combine that with the generated sound. I wonder how they synchronize the audio with the video? I imagine that there would be some sort of small delay. If they are just doing a pass-through of the video and injecting audio into the stream then I suppose there would be almost no delay. At least not enough delay to notice.
I also wonder why Creative has not announced a product like this. Both this device and the Asus device use Creative chips.
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I am thinking of building a new home theater PC and this may just be the card I go with. However, as far as I can tell neither this card nor the Asus card have been tested.
Apparently the sound card can accept video from the video card and then combine that with the generated sound. I wonder how they synchronize the audio with the video? I imagine that there would be some sort of small delay. If they are just doing a pass-through of the video and injecting audio into the stream then I suppose there would be almost no delay. At least not enough delay to notice.
I also wonder why Creative has not announced a product like this. Both this device and the Asus device use Creative chips.