New SPDIF Driver

[sarexpert]

I saw on the web page that Paul was working on a new SPDIF driver.
Would it be possible to include a compile switch to make it serve as a AES-3 driver also. The differences in the format of SPDIF and AES-2 are very minor. There is a header byte and the meaning of a couple of fields are changed. If those fields were blanked, it would be fully compliant.

AES Standard » AES3-2009 (r2019): AES standard for digital audio engineering - Serial transmission format for two-channel linearly represented digital audio data

AES3 provides for the serial digital transmission of two channels of periodically sampled and uniformly quantized audio signals on various media. This revision comprises four parts - also available separately - and includes all amendments prior to 2009. Part 1 specifies the semantics of the...

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[PaulS]

About a year ago, I looked into the difference between consumer SPDIF and AES3. Not sure why I looked into that - I think I wanted to know what digital format my Soundcraft mixer outputted on its 'digital-out' RCA connector (it's consumer SPDIF).
Anyway, found a number informative documents back then which may be helpful to someone. See the attachments.

I saw on the web page that Paul was working on a new SPDIF driver.

Just curious: where did you actually read this?

The differences in the format of SPDIF and AES-2 are very minor

I'm not sure that it is trivial though...

If I'm correct the current SPDIF driver has been developed by FrankB a.k.a. @Mcu32.

Paul