Re: [Alsa-user] Need help connecting spdif input

2009-02-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
rek...@holisticode.se wrote: I have been searching the web for an example of how to get sourround sound from my toslink input [...] I realise that an a52 filter should be used, The a52 plugin encodes PCM data into Dolby data, and as a plugin, it is only used when an application uses the

Re: [Alsa-user] xonar essence stx

2009-02-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
jed wrote: Damn, that's a substantial amt of stuff that won't be available don't u reckon? Yes. Best regards, Clemens -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the

Re: [Alsa-user] Split stereo input?

2009-02-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
deadrabbit wrote: I'm new to using ALSA, or at least to the internals of it. I'm trying to create a Icecast stream encoding computer for two audio streams. The computer as a single stereo line in, so I'm planning on feeding each mono stream through the single stereo input. I've looked at the

Re: [Alsa-user] anyone using the M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8R (or any other 8in 8 out USB device)

2009-02-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
sonof...@iinet.net.au wrote: I'm looking to move over to a device that I can use with both my linux desktop and a 2nd hand powerbook i bought recently. I have been more focussed on FFADO compatible as from what I understand I am more likely to get latency issues on a USB device...

Re: [Alsa-user] Griffin Imic

2009-02-13 Thread Clemens Ladisch
gary wrote: gary wrote: Now for the problem. I can't talk to the iMic. Using krecord -d /dev/dsp4 . I get the response ioctl SNDCTL_DSP_SETMFT: Input/output error There should be an error message in the system log (probably /var/log/messages, or at the end of the output of dmesg). I

Re: [Alsa-user] xonar essence stx

2009-02-13 Thread jed
or if some OSS implementations of the features below start to pop up?...:-( jed wrote: Is it ever likely that some of it will be supported in some shape/form in the future? Spose it all proprietary, and unless one of the organisations behind one of the major distros chips-in for

Re: [Alsa-user] xonar essence stx

2009-02-13 Thread jed
Is it ever likely that some of it will be supported in some shape/form in the future? Spose it all proprietary, and unless one of the organisations behind one of the major distros chips-in for licensing, it will never become available? :-(

Re: [Alsa-user] How to reorder channels?

2009-02-13 Thread Roman Odaisky
Hi, thanks for such a detailed message. I tried JACK, and it seems to work, but I hear lots of clicks and see lots of xrun messages. Some googling seems to suggest a realtime kernel would eliminate those, but it seems a great overkill, and also it could introduce a security risk if I grant

Re: [Alsa-user] How to reorder channels?

2009-02-13 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Roman Odaisky wrote: I merely need to reorder channels. dshare does that but disables mixing. How can I just tell ALSA to route channels in a way slightly different from the default one? Use dmix instead of dshare if you like also mix multiple sources.

[Alsa-user] output sound through both devices

2009-02-13 Thread Jason Jesso
I am on Arch Linux. Up to about a week ago sound was always played through both the analog and digital devices. I have an A/V receiver connected to the digital output. When I played Amarok I heard sound through both the speakers connected to the analog output and home theater speakers as well.

[Alsa-user] Split stereo input?

2009-02-13 Thread deadrabbit
After more digging around, I found an answer on the wiki: dsnoop. There's even an example of exactly what I'm trying to do here: http://alsa.opensrc.org/Dsnoop#Recording_from_left_or_right_channel However, I've hit one more stumbling block. I can split the devices with dsnoop, but I can only

[Alsa-user] ALSA USB difficulties; do these modules look correct

2009-02-13 Thread gary
Since in theory my usb soundcards should be working, I am trying to determine if there is a setup issue on my system (suse 11.1 64 bit) Does the following look kosher? Results of modprobe -l, restricted to usb sound /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/sound/usb/snd-usb-audio.ko

[Alsa-user] No sound on LG-S1 QB01A9

2009-02-13 Thread Daren Krive
Hi everyone, Sorry in advance if this type of question does not belong on this list. I am new to this. I have never been able to get sound working properly on my laptop under *any * Linux distro. I have the LG S1 (model QB01A9). The sound works fine on the headphone jack but not on the