On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > I have a mac G4 (running debian testing), a ymfpci card (MaxiSound > Fortissimo) with optical TOSlink out, and a yamaha HTR-5540 receiver with > digital optical TOSlink input. > > I'm trying to get xine or some other DVD player to output AC/3 sound to > the receiver for watching dvd's, and I have a couple of problems. > > 1) xmms (and xine 2-channel sound) works with OSS emulation, but is static > with native ALSA drivers. This seems like some endian problem > > 2) spdif out does not seem to work. Here are some of the messages from > xine: > > audio_alsa_out : supported modes are 8bit mono stereo (4-channel not enabled in > xine config) (5-channel not enabled in xine config) (5.1-channel not enabled in > xine config) a/52 and DTS pass-through > > > audio_out: stream audio format is 48000 kHz sampling rate, 16 bits. mode is 1. > audio_alsa_out: Audio Device name = > iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2 > audio_alsa_out: Number of channels = 2 > audio_alsa_out: pcm hw_params failed: No such device or ALSA lib > pcm_hw.c:292:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed: No > such device or addressALSA lib pcm_hw.c:292:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) > SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed: No such device or address > > > So where do I get started to fix this? > > Also, where can I get some short raw AC3 encoded sounds to test with > something like aplay?
We have command-line ac3dec in our alsa-tools package. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SuSE Labs ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel