>> how are users supposed to set various s/pdif bits?
>> 
>> the existing control formats involve massive bitfields that are
>> totally impenetrenable to almost everyone.
>> 
>> what is the strategy here? if someone wants to turn the pro/consumer
>> bit on/off, what are they supposed to do?
>
>a good question - there has not been much discussions there.
>the iec958 status bits are passed usually through AESx arguments of
>iec958 (aka spdif) pcm interface.  and i think it's a good way,
>because it's general and applicable to different cards in a uniform
>way.

true, but its totally impenetrable. i wrote a few drivers and even i
have absolutely no idea what those bitfields mean. 

>well, we'll need a kind of iec958-status-bit-composer, which is
>implemented on envy24control.  but i believe it should be a user-land
>solution, anyway.

i agree. but why are the status bit fields so long? is this following
IEC958 specs?



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