On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Johan Spee wrote:
> Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > $ arecord -L
> > gives a list of predefined PCM devices you could use. One of these
> > should be named "spdif".
>
> 'should be'. But this is ALSA we are dealing with...
> (No offence Frank, my cynicism does not concern you)
>
> # arecord -L
> **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: T22 [Terratec PHASE 22], device 0: ICE1724 [ICE1724]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: T22 [Terratec PHASE 22], device 1: IEC1724 IEC958 [IEC1724 IEC958]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
> Subdevices: 3/3
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
> Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
>
> Why call it 'spdif' or 'digital' when you can call it 'IEC1724 IEC958
> [IEC1724 IEC958]' right?
You can use 'iec958' device name.
> But that is not the 'name' I could use. Neither
> is 'T22'. The only thing that works is 'plughw:0,1'.
'plug:iec958:T22' or 'plug:iec958' or 'plug:spdif:T22' or 'plug:spdif'
device does not work? The iec958 device is raw device (without any
conversions). Applications expect to work with 16-bit samples usually.
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs
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