From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Robert Robinson" Subject: Re: Audiophile 2496 S/PDIF Support Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 08:19:31 -0400 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <000d01c26c69$7597be40$0201a8c0@rer> References: <20021002145420.6F590146FB@Cantor.suse.de><20021002174359.1d2395d3.matthias@rpmforge.net><000001c26a6b$bf2da600$0201a8c0@rer> <001501c26bd3$cd7da430$0201a8c0@rer> <3D9E6C5F.2010306@superbug.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: James Courtier-Dutton Cc: Takashi Iwai , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org James, Thank you. I will try arecord. Robbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Courtier-Dutton" To: "Robert Robinson" Cc: "Takashi Iwai" ; Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 12:36 AM Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Audiophile 2496 S/PDIF Support > Robert Robinson wrote: > > >Takashi, > > > >I had communication from Kysela Jaroslav indicating that the Audiophile 2496 > >driver does support digital I/O. > >The problem may be that I have not been using an audio interface program > >that supports the digital option. This choice is never displayed as part of > >the I/O. > >Robbie > > > > > I own a SB Live card, and not an Audiophile 2496, but on the SB Live you > use alsamixer to select all the recording sources. Then you run arecord > and it records the sound from the multiple sources mixed together. > > The problem with the SB Live is that recording from the SPDIF is always > interpolated to 48kHz, some interpolation happens between 48Khz input > and the 48Khz of the sound card. In reality the sound quality does not > change, but it does cause problems if you are trying to capture an AC3 > or DTS signal, because the interpolation breaks it. > > A good program to test recording in is arecord, which comes with alsa. > > Cheers > James > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf