On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 16:44:29 +0100
"Michel van der Mark" <michel@...> wrote:

> If you mean by 'Laser Disc' an ordinary CD,
[snip]

Laser Disc was/is a 12" optical video format, came before DVD, never caught on.
The question is if the OP is using a laser disc player and playing a music CD or
trying to record the audio from a laserdisc. If memory serves; Laserdiscs have
2 audio tracks, one analogue and one digital (16bit PCM). Later on the analogue
track was used for AC-3. From the digital track, everything should work as for
a CD. For the analogue track the SPDIF probably wouldn't even switch on in the
case of a 'proper' analogue track.

Perhaps the OP could give some more details as to why they think the transfer
isn't perfect. It certainly is possible, I've done it a few times and verified
it as such.

Duncan