On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 00:09 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 22:32 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > >> What happens now if I do > >> aplay -D spdif something.wav > >> ? Most certainly not the soundcard with the S/PDIF output gets used. > >> Instead some nonsense happens. > >> > > > > It will try to play to the spdif interface on card 0 (the onboard one) > > which will fail. > > > > aplay -D spdif:1 something.wav should DTRT. > > aplay -D spdif:1 -f cdr /tmp/mnt/wo1.dat > ALSA lib confmisc.c:990:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition > 'cards.USB-Audio.pcm.iec958.0:CARD=1,AES0=4,AES1=130,AES2=0,AES3=2' > ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned > error: No such file or directory > ALSA lib conf.c:3948:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or > directory > ALSA lib pcm.c:2090:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM spdif:1 > aplay: main:533: audio open error: No such file or directory
now that's what i call a sick joke. if only i had more time, i'd be writing CoreAudio for linux right this very second. --p
