[arch-general] HDMI audio input - HDMI microphone

[Neven Sajko]

> As a former audio engineer who worked for one of the two famous German
> microphone companies, my intuitive thought is still to prefer S/PDIF
> over USB. Perhaps I'm just a dino who missed that all gear nowadays is
> equipped with USB. In my experiences a lot of consumer gear provides
> S/PDIF, but not necessarily USB, so assumed you one day want to connect
> your digital microphone to some other equipment (not to a computer),
> there might be no USB port available, while S/PDIF usually is available.

Actually, after reading the Wikipedia S/PDIF article it seems that
S/PDIF does not have enough bandwidth for my purposes, since I am
building a microphone array. Wikipedia implies that no more than 5
channels of PCM can sent over S/PDIF.

Regards,
Neven