S/Pdif (coaxial) output and not optical output on PS2

[Gradius]

Hi all,

I'm trying to put a coaxial (spdif) output, since I cannot use optical output here.

I found out the optical component on ps2 is a JST K-A component, but I cannot able to find any information about that.

I can remember this component just have 3 pins, like this one:

pin 1 - GND
pin 2 - TX (transmitter)
pin 3 - +5Vcc

Just using pin 1 for GND and pin 2 as center on my spdif (coaxial) should works? Anyone have tried this before or read someone else tried this before?

Gradius

[legioss]

I could be off, but the signal being send out is a modulated light signal. This light signal is converted to a regular digital signal on the recieving end and decoded. This would have to be converted to get the regular digital signal. There are conversion boxes out there for 60 CAD.

[Ph1l]

Info on SPDIF and Optical here:

http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html

Ph1l.

[Gradius]

Thanks for the infos.

In reality I want to rip off AC3 and DTS files from PS2 games.

For example, how to extract AC3 files from MGS2 ?

If I just connect PS2 via Toslink or coaxial to my sb card, I'll can recording in stereo way only, and not into multi-channel format.

Gradius

[zabanitu]

the fact that you can't record the whole sound stream should be only a fault of your soundcard....
since if you wire up a rca to have a coaxial out from the psx directly to the TOSLINK output, all you have is a copy of the bitstream in a 0 - 5V logic instead of light - no light.

if i understood correctly when you use coax on your s/c you can rip everything, if you use TOSLINK then you can not.
lemme know ;-)