Hi everyone,

I am considering using my pc as an audio/video source. Here is what I am thinking . All inexpensive suggestions are welcome.
1)Audio: Digital sound card? I don’t necessarily want a sound board with a digital to analog processor. I just need to pass the raw digital signl from the pc to my av receiver and have the receiver do the processing. I know some sound boards come with a digital out. But as I said before all I need is the digital out piece. Is this making any sense?

2)Video playback: I would like to archive my dvd’s on the hard drive and playback from the pc. What would be involved here, in terms of hardware(video card with s video /dvi out?) and of course to be able to pass the dolby digital stream to my av receiver.

Quality should not be compromised in either 1) or 2)