Any luck capturing with your macbook pro? I have never been able to get this to work, save for one time a couple minutes. If I kept adjusting the plug, pulling partway out, I eventually would get a digital input signal. But usually for only seconds. I've tried this on 3 different mid-late 2007 macbook pro's and all the same deal. Maybe they just don't like the little adapter end I bought. Weird, because the digital output port works flawlessly with this adapter.

My current setup involves a G4 MDD tower, an Audiophile 9624 soundcard with digital coax input and an optical>coax adapter for my Panny laserdisc player. I've confirmed that this setup is not altering the digital signal. However, I am not always getting bit-for-bit accurate rips. A couple laserdiscs are not matching up when I compare two captures. Other LDs were 100% identical. The one that has me pulling my hair out right now is not giving two captures that even come close to matching. A canceling out leaves behind a lot of static and clicks. I could get over the fact that the capture's aren't bit-identical if I weren't able to hear some random clicks when listening to the audio. I would figure it's the LD's fault, but this is a Japanese import that plays flawless video. No visual signs of rot. The whole reason I sold my previous player was to buy one with digital audio output. The only remaining LDs I have that aren't on DVD are music titles and I was planning to transfer these to digital, capturing the digital audio signal. This worked perfectly on 2 discs and is giving me problems on two discs. My next step may be to try and clean the player's lens. I have very little faith that will change anything, but I have no idea how and where this player was being stored, so maybe it's full of dust.

Btw, if anyone has these LDs and could do a bit-perfect digital audio capture for me, they would be returning some of my sanity:

Lou Reed: The New York Album

Lou Reed: Magic and Loss In Concert