AES Digital Audio into a Mac

I need to input SDI digital video and AES digital audio into a Dual G5 Mac. I see that BlackMagic will do the digital video part for in and out but it seems to only output digital audio. How can I get AES digital audio into the Mac. Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks

Thanks this is what I was looking for. It looks like I can bring in SDI digital video through the BlackMagic card and AES/EBU digital audio with the Hosa box connected to the digital audio input on the back of the G5.
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AES Digital Audio into a G%

I need to input SDI digital video and AES digital audio into a Dual G5 Mac. I see that BlackMagic will do the digital video part for in and out but it seems to only output digital audio. How can I get AES digital audio into the Mac. Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks

Thanks this is what I was looking for. It looks like I can bring in SDI digital video through the BlackMagic card and AES/EBU digital audio with the Hosa box connected to the digital audio input on the back of the G5.
Thanks

AES Digital Audio input to a Dual G5

I need to input SDI digital video and AES digital audio into a Dual G5 Mac. I see that BlackMagic will do the digital video part for in and out but it seems to only output digital audio. How can I get AES digital audio into the Mac. Any suggestions would be great.
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look for a used AJA I/O. firewire connect to your mac SD only supports embedded or AES.
The HD cards do both SD and HD the kona3 has a control panel that you tell it what you want, or FCP tells it what to do. once again embedded or AES. For analog you'll need an A>D D>A converter
Note that although the audio comes in embedded it is still a separate and editable element. also saves on wiring instead of AES 110ohm wire plus video it all comes down 1 wire. of course that means diddley if you're coming from an audio only device

Trying to find a way to inject digital audio into an HDMI path

There are lots of DVI to HDMI connection options out there, but I have yet to see one that allows one to incorporate digital audio into the HDMI path. Given that there are lots of early adopter video-only HDMI components out there that will be looking for a way to inject a digital audio feed into the HDMI path, so that a monitor can play HDMI video and digital audio natively, instead of either opting for analog audio (where it is available) or being stuck with no way to get audio to follow, one would think that there would be a big market for that sort of a device...
This gets a bit trickier with the Mac Mini when one considers that in order to have access to the TOSLINK, you are functionally locked into either using TOSLINK exclusively, or buying a TOSLINK splitter and then downconverting one of the splits to analog.
One would THINK that it would be in Apple's best interest to make a DVI to HDMI adapter available that would have a TOSLINK cable to plug in to inject the digital audio natively, so the whole thing would be seamless... it would be a very Apple sort of way to deal with it... but that doesn't seem to be in the cards at this point.
Any thoughts/suggestions/death threats?
Message was edited by: algor_langeaux

algor_langeaux wrote:
There are lots of DVI to HDMI connection options out there, but I have yet to see one that allows one to incorporate digital audio into the HDMI path. Given that there are lots of early adopter video-only HDMI components out there that will be looking for a way to inject a digital audio feed into the HDMI path, so that a monitor can play HDMI video and digital audio natively, instead of either opting for analog audio (where it is available) or being stuck with no way to get audio to follow, one would think that there would be a big market for that sort of a device...
This gets a bit trickier with the Mac Mini when one considers that in order to have access to the TOSLINK, you are functionally locked into either using TOSLINK exclusively, or buying a TOSLINK splitter and then downconverting one of the splits to analog.
As an aside I had hoped by now Apple as supposedly a seller of multimedia products might have switched to using HDMI as standard. It looks like they eventually might switch to using "DisplayPort".
Anyway, there are converters that will do what you want. Have a look at this as an example
http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=3570
Before this particular one shipped their pre-launch information (and pictures) said it would support TOS-Link (which is what Macs use) but when it actually became available it was only for SPDIF.
However since then I have come to a realisation that these converters are probably a waste of time anyway. If you are going to connect directly to a TV which has HDMI then using such an adapter is not necessary because the TV itself only has stereo speakers so using a DVI-HDMI cable plus a mini-jack to pair of phono connectors will work as well even if it needs two separate sets of cables. If on the other hand you are going to connect the Mac mini via an AV Receiver, then all such AV Receivers can accept a DVI or HDMI video signal, and a TOS-Link audio signal and then pass the video out to a TV and the audio out to a set of 5.1 speakers. In effect the AV Receiver itself is such a converter.
This latter approach is the one I intend to use.
If you really do want to consider this approach then there are such converters, even ones which do support TOS-Link connections. A bit of Googling will show them up. In the mean time the one listed below
http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=4298
would do what you want and also includes a 'scaler' to increase the resolution up to 1080p. This one has two HDMI and TOS-Link inputs. With a Mac mini you would use a DVI to HDMI cable and a TOS-Link cable, it would then output via a standard HDMI cable. It even looks a bit like a Mac mini.
However when you look at the price you can see you may as well use a full-blown upscaling AV Receiver like a Onkyo or Denon.

Optical digital audio output for mac book?

Hello, I am wondering if MacBook pro Retina version has the Optical digital audio output or thunderbolt adapter? so i can use optical cable to do output for my music.

Hi alece,
Just to clarify something;
When using an optical cable there are several standards of audio that can pass through the cable:
S/PDIF - a stereo signal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spdif
AC3 or Dolby Digital - up to 5.1 surround - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac3
Dolby Digital Plus - up to 7.1 surround - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DolbyDigitalPlus
ADAT Optical - up to 8 channels of audio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAT_Lightpipe
MADI - up to 64 channels of audio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MADI
I´m sure other people can add more to the list if they want to, my point is that these signals can pass through the exact same kind of optical cable.
The important bit to know is what does your equipment and software support... in theory your question is quite logical, a software can play 5.1 surround to a optical output like Apple DVD Player does with the built-in sound card of a modern mac. However, Logic does not support live encoding of AC3. That is why you have to output the surround mix in Logic to a sound card with at least 6 channels (5+1 as in 5.1) connected to your speaker system. Typically this would be 5 active studio monitors plus a sub. If you were thinking to use an existing stereo I would not recommend it since most consumer speakers have no limiters to protect them from damage (but may be possible depending on your amplifiers inputs)
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Digital Audio Processor on MDD Motherboard?

Hi,
I have a bare-bones Mirrored Drive Door G4 Power Mac (Case, SuperDrive, Motherboard, Power Supply), and a 667mhz Digital Audio G4 Power Mac. Can I put the processor of the Digital Audio into the MDD, and would there be any benefit to doing so? (at least until I can get something else to put in there).
Any advice would be appreciated, I haven't began to play with these yet, and wanted some opinions first.
Thanks,
Keith

Hi-
No, you can't.
Get yourself a MDD processor. That's all that'll work.

Using Digital Audio In to play game console audio?

I was hoping this would work, but not sure it will. So far, it doesn't.
I have my Mac Pro connected to a set of 5.1 Klipsch speakers via Griffin's Firewave device.
I wanted to pass the audio from my Xbox 360 to the Mac Pro (via Toslink out from Xbox to digital audio in on Mac Pro) and have the audio output from the Mac pick it up and send it through the Firewave device to the speakers.
I have the connection made between Xbox and Mac Pro, and have set by Audio Input to Built-in Digital Input, but cannot hear the Xbox audio. I couldn't find any sort of "passthrough" feature in either Apple's or the Firewave's software.
I was hoping this would work because I have a similar setup on my PC laptop and it works great: I have another Xbox 360's digital output connected to the optical digital input on a Creative Labs PCMCIA soundcard, and it's able to pass the audio through to the 5.1 speakers I have connected to the laptop.
When the Xbox is powered on, the Digital Input sound meter in System Preferences remains constant at a near-spiked level, so it appears to be getting SOME kind of sigal from the Xbox, but I guess it doesn't know what to do with it from there.
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When I run AudioHijack Pro and route the audio from digital-in, it works fine. Also, viewing the input page on the sound preference pane, the input level shows activity so I know sound is working. However, I can only route audio using audio hijack pro.

Digital Audio out from Airport's USB?

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are "plug & play" so if the monitors are, why
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possibility as a usb port on the mac itself. They
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I have a 2010 Mac Mini connected to my HDTV/AV Receiver. I send digital audio to the av receiver with an optical cable. I have sleep disabled for OTA DVR. I have not tried to see if it will wake the mini to record.
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You need to start your own discussion concerning your issue. You are committing an infraction, it is called a threadjack. Digital audio from a Mac's audio outport is a very different issue from digital audio over USB.
So return to here; http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1317&start=0
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How to reset PMU in Digital Audio G4?

Are there any procedures required other than powering down, disconnecting all leads, opening the case and pressing the PMU button (located on mobo with "S1" marked next to it ) ??
I can not find any tech articles on resetting the PMU on a Digital Audio G4 Power Mac despite doing numerous searches.
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Hello Murray and Thomas,
On my dual HD, dual boot DA, I had a similar problem following an unsuccessful attempt to install a flashed PC Geforce 3 video card.
Wouldn't boot in OSX at all, would boot in OS9 only if I unplugged the OSX(10.3) HD and set the startup disk from the OS9 install CD.
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Can I speak into my mac and save it as an audio file with garage band

Can I speak into my mac and save it as digital audio file?

Looking at the specs, the mini does not appear to have a built-in microphone as the iMacs do. You can't just plug a microphone into the input socket, as that is line level and a microphone doesn't have enough output. Your easiest move would be to buy a USB headset such as the one Plantronics makes for use with Skype: this should work straight off.
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Digital Audio Optical Input S/PDIF on Mac Mini 10.9.2

For years prior, with my MMP 15", etc. and since the fall the Mac Mini (fall '13), the setup worked flawlessly ... until recently -- since around the time updating to 10.9.2 I have had intermittant issues with the digital I/O with my Apogee Rosetta 200 until it stopped all together last week.
I have replaced or swapped out the cables first off, to no improvement -- I called Apogee and we were able to prove the input to Apogee with an Eventide Esclipse's S/PDIF output.
I called Apple and the tech and I rebooted in safemode and saw the Audio Devices pane of Audio Midi Setup and Sound neither showed the digital input/output as being active. I sent the unit in and the logic board was replaced in view of the circumstances.
I just setup the repaired unit and now the S/PDIF out (from the Mini to the Rosetta) works -- the Sound pane shows that shows the functioning digital input however, and conspicuosly, the Audio/Midi does not (and used to).
Further, the S/PDIF in (from the Apogee to the Mac) is neither functioning nor the two panes, Audio devices and Sound, register the digial input.
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I have a backgorund as a Mac tech and a member of Apple Solutions Expert since back in the 90's ...

The optical digital audio input is a good way to get basic digital audio data into the Mac - assuming you have the audio in that format. Most vinyl digitizing folks do not.
The most common hardware configuration is to use your old vinyl turntable, connected to the proper phono input of a stereo (most modern stereos do not have this and you have to buy an outboard phono preamp). Then the recording (tape) output of the stereo goes to an audio interface that connects to the Mac with Firewire or USB, and not using the Mac optical input at all. There are dozens of famous makers of interfaces from a hundred dollars to thousands. For the casual user, I'd say $250 is a nice spot. You can get a stereo interface that takes analog input from your stereo, digitizes it, and send it to the Mac. It will also accept microphones, should you want. You'll need software to record and edit the audio (Audacity is free and works) and you can use iTunes to make CDs (although cumbersome).
There are interfaces that do have optical outputs that you could connect to the Mac. But since optical interfaces are rare on computers, and have many limitations, this isn't so common.
There are many tutorials on the net about digitizing LPs on computers.

Two macs w/ digital audio

I have a 27" iMac and a Mac Mini. I would like to add some external speakers to my setup. What's the best way to get both of these Macs to share one set of speakers?
If I run the digital output from the Mini into the digital input of the iMac and then run the iMac's digital out to a pair of speakers with optical inputs then would I be able to hear audio from both Macs?

FWIW I got a set of speakers with 2 separate audio inputs.

Upgrading from 10.4.11 to 10.5.8 on my G4 Power Mac Digital audio-is it worth it and how do i find the 10.5.8

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grade to reach the 10.4.11. Its works great and I love it. I can only imagine using a real Mac Pro 2012. The software is legacy and It will not support the QuarkExpress9 for example. So what if I found and upgraded to the 10.5.8 or the max OS my G4 can handle? Is it worth it?
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Hi,
Depends what part of 10.5 you think you need, but 10.5 does not support Classic Apps, requires 3 times the resources & space, is expensive, & slower than Tiger/10.4 even on a G5 Quad with 10 GB of RAM.
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minimum system requirements
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Classic/OS9 Apps no longer supported.
Trouble is Apple no longer sells it, check eBay & such for the Retail version, not the Gray Discs...
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mac+os+x+leopard+retail+10.5
There are workarounds if the 867MHz CPU is the only hangup...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/leopardassist/
http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/unsupported.html

HT4806 Mac mini digital audio out through the headphone jack

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5539
It is there for all mac minis starting from 2010 model.
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AES Digital Audio into a Mac

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