osorio1 Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Hello everyone, I have a Direct TV receiver that has optical out, can i hook up a minidisc player/recorder that has optical in and start recording the XM channels that are being broadcsted? If they can be recorded would it be real time or can they be compressed on the fly? Thank you all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrazyIvan Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 It might work. You would be recording real-time but the MD is compressing on the fly unless you are recording in PCM mode (Hi-MD only). I think you may have some termonology mixed up.IIRC I think the DirectTV optical out has SCMS enabled which means the MD will not record it. I might be wrong but I guess you can't lose anything by trying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1kyle Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 (edited) To lose the SCMS why not run the optical IN cable into your DVD player / recorder and then take the Optical OUT from the DVD player / recorder into your minidisc recorder.The optical OUT on most decent DVD players / recorders is simply a "Pass thru" so you won't lose any quality by "double encoding".You should find the output of the DVD has "stripped" the SCMS bit off in the output data stream. (At least the European models imported from China / Taiwan do). --I think the reason the SCMS bit gets stripped off is that the optical signal can also be fed into l 5.1, 6.1 /7.1 and various other combinations of external Pro logic / Dolby / DTS decoders.Cheers-K Edited March 12, 2006 by 1kyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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