[Alsa-user] Troubles with snd-hda-intel on an Asus w5f

2008-12-12 Thread Salvatore Filippone
Hello, I have the following problem. The machine I use works under fedora 7 with the configuration specified at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=93964b2ec68d1f912509bb1ac2ee02a5163ec4a1 somehow this is working despite the error hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC660VD/ALC861VD, trying auto-probe

[Alsa-user] Dmix (or similar) for flash?

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Röhm
Hello, I´m new to the list and I hope somebody can help me I´d like to output several instances (I have a 8-channel soundcard) of flash based streaming. Actually I´m running 8 instances of mplayer at the same time in a loop (automatic reconnect) for windows, real or winamp streaming

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Paulo Moura Guedes
On Thursday 11 December 2008 01:20:23 stan wrote: Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: I'm trying to get bit perfect output out of my linux box, but I can't find much info on the web. I'm using ALSA. Some questions: - does Linux/ALSA features dynamic sample rates? yes. You can specify

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Paulo Moura Guedes
On Thursday 11 December 2008 07:35:25 Clemens Ladisch wrote: Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: - does Linux/ALSA features dynamic sample rates? The default device (named default) uses automatic resampling, but the spdif device does not. So, I have to manually set the sample-rate, depending on the

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Paulo Moura Guedes
On Thursday 11 December 2008 01:42:12 Bill Unruh wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, stan wrote: Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: I'm trying to get bit perfect output out of my linux box, but I can't What is bit perfect output? Sound output is an analog process ( sound waves in the air are analog). You

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Paulo Moura Guedes
BTW, Benchmark has very nice instructions for getting bit-perfect output, but only for Windows and Mac: http://extra.benchmarkmedia.com/wiki/index.php/Computer_Audio_Playback_- _Setup_Guide Foobar2000 is a great player for Windows, which have complete configuration options:

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Bill Unruh
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008 01:42:12 Bill Unruh wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, stan wrote: Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: I'm trying to get bit perfect output out of my linux box, but I can't What is bit perfect output? Sound output is an analog

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Bill Unruh
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008 01:20:23 stan wrote: Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: I'm trying to get bit perfect output out of my linux box, but I can't find much info on the web. I'm using ALSA. Some questions: - does Linux/ALSA features dynamic

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Sergei Steshenko
It's not the first time perfect bits are discussed here. Last time I managed to stop the fruitless discussion part by reminding that any CD with 44100Hz sample rate is produced from material sample at much higher sample rate, and quality resampling is used. So, rather than being afaraid of

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Kuther
On Fr, 12.12.08 15:53 Paulo Moura Guedes mo...@kdewebdev.org wrote: - is it possible to set the bit-depth? (in my case to 24 bit) Yes, if the hardware supports it. It's a Benchmark DAC1 which supports 24 bit. Where can I set it? The DAC doesn't matter for ALSA and its settings, but

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Paulo Moura Guedes
On Friday 12 December 2008 18:20:32 Thomas Kuther wrote: On Fr, 12.12.08 15:53 Paulo Moura Guedes mo...@kdewebdev.org wrote: - is it possible to set the bit-depth? (in my case to 24 bit) Yes, if the hardware supports it. It's a Benchmark DAC1 which supports 24 bit. Where can I set

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Paulo Moura Guedes
On Friday 12 December 2008 17:31:43 Bill Unruh wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008 01:42:12 Bill Unruh wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, stan wrote: Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: I'm trying to get bit perfect output out of my linux box, but I can't

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Paulo Moura Guedes
On Friday 12 December 2008 17:34:18 Bill Unruh wrote: - does Linux/ALSA features dynamic sample rates? yes. You can specify whatever rate you want and it will happen. eg 57,325 frames/second. I meant dynamic, e.g., if my FLAC file has a sample rate of 96KHz, that will be used, but

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Paulo Moura Guedes
On Friday 12 December 2008 17:52:29 Sergei Steshenko wrote: It's not the first time perfect bits are discussed here. Last time I managed to stop the fruitless discussion part by reminding that any CD with 44100Hz sample rate is produced from material sample at much higher sample rate, and

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Paulo Moura Guedes
On Friday 12 December 2008 19:27:51 Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:58:37 + Paulo Moura Guedes mo...@kdewebdev.org wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 17:52:29 Sergei Steshenko wrote: It's not the first time perfect bits are discussed here. Last time I managed to

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:45:00 + Paulo Moura Guedes mo...@kdewebdev.org wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 19:27:51 Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:58:37 + Paulo Moura Guedes mo...@kdewebdev.org wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 17:52:29 Sergei Steshenko wrote:

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Paulo Moura Guedes
On Friday 12 December 2008 19:50:31 Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:45:00 + Paulo Moura Guedes mo...@kdewebdev.org wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 19:27:51 Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:58:37 + Paulo Moura Guedes mo...@kdewebdev.org wrote:

Re: [Alsa-user] Troubles with snd-hda-intel on an Asus w5f

2008-12-12 Thread stan
Salvatore Filippone wrote: Hello, I have the following problem. The machine I use works under fedora 7 with the configuration specified at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=93964b2ec68d1f912509bb1ac2ee02a5163ec4a1 somehow this is working despite the error hda_codec: Unknown model for

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:24:25 + Paulo Moura Guedes mo...@kdewebdev.org wrote: I don't know about ALSA. So, ALSA, as well as many Linux applications, have a choice of qualities for resampling, and I bet you won't hear the difference between middle and high quality. There is no OS

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:24:25 + Paulo Moura Guedes mo...@kdewebdev.org wrote: Anyway, this seems the typical response when something is not possible to do: your computer doesn't work with this operating system? Buy another. :) Huh ? People have already answered you how to avoid

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread stan
Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008 01:20:23 stan wrote: Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: I'm trying to get bit perfect output out of my linux box, but I can't find much info on the web. I'm using ALSA. I think you are somewhat confused. ALSA is a low level interface

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:36:02 +0100 Florian Faber fa...@faberman.de wrote: Paulo, I would like that all the resampling is made by the DAC because I can trust on its quality. Bwahahahaha! Flo For example, here: http://www.futurlec.com/ICSFOthers.shtml one can see that DACs are

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:07:49 -0700 stan ghjeold_i_m...@cox.net wrote: The long and short of it is that alsa is as bit perfect as you ask it to be and as the device and digitial input it is using is. The method I outlined above, or close facsimile thereof, should be able to prove it to

Re: [Alsa-user] Digital bit perfect ouptut with ALSA

2008-12-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Paulo Moura Guedes wrote: I'm trying to get bit perfect output out of my linux box, but I can't find much info on the web. I'm using ALSA. Some questions: - does Linux/ALSA features dynamic sample rates? - is it possible to set the bit-depth? (in my case to 24 bit) - what other

Re: [Alsa-user] Troubles with snd-hda-intel on an Asus w5f

2008-12-12 Thread Vedran Miletić
2008/12/12 stan ghjeold_i_m...@cox.net: Salvatore Filippone wrote: Hello, I have the following problem. The machine I use works under fedora 7 with the configuration specified at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=93964b2ec68d1f912509bb1ac2ee02a5163ec4a1 somehow this is working despite the

Re: [Alsa-user] Troubles with snd-hda-intel on an Asus w5f

2008-12-12 Thread stan
Vedran Miletić wrote: 2008/12/12 stan ghjeold_i_m...@cox.net: Salvatore Filippone wrote: Hello, I have the following problem. The machine I use works under fedora 7 with the configuration specified at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=93964b2ec68d1f912509bb1ac2ee02a5163ec4a1 somehow this

[Alsa-user] Partially seeing digital outputs with sound-2.6.git and NVIDIA HDMI

2008-12-12 Thread Rob Rosenfeld
I have an ASUS M3N78-VM motherboard with onboard nVidia audio, including HDMI audio output. My goal is to send all audio output over the HDMI connector, eventually passing ac3 to a stereo. I'm trying out a recent version of sound-2.6.git for the support of the nVidia HDMI codec and have compiled

[Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel nvidia 8200 Realtek ALC1200 not found

2008-12-12 Thread Darren Hart
I'm trying to build 1.0.18a on Ubuntu 8.10 in order to get HDMI audio output on my Acer X1200. However, after building the drivers, lib, utils, and tools packages (plugins fails to compile for me - working with the debian package guys on that), I load the snd-hda-intel driver and see the