Originally Posted By: wfaulk
I'm not sure if there is any handshaking on an SPDIF connection — I suspect there's not — or, if there is, how it might work.

It's not handshaking as such -- the receiver doesn't get to tell the sender what it's capable of -- but the stream is self-describing. Unless either the sender or the receiver is Doing It Wrong, non-PCM streams can't be misinterpreted as PCM.

Peter