From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz@hostmaster.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Surround via SPDIF with ALSA/emu10k1?
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:48:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125168503.25011.70.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125166739.22285.66.camel@hostmaster.org>
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 20:18 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> I have now been told that SPDIF cannot support more than 2 channels
> except with AC3 compression. Given the fact that we can send 580MBit/s
> over USB2.0 I would not have even remotely considered this to be the
> problem and find it an incredible shame that audio industry is using
> such a crippled standard.
>
> I have now solved my problem by buying and connecting an analog 5.1
> speaker set. Unfortunately I get audible distortions when I turn both
> the "PCM" and "Wave" mixers to the maximum setting. I wonder if anyone
> can provide more insight what these controls really do and whether it's
> better to turn down "PCM", "Wave" or both.
Off topic for LKML, this should only have been posted to the ALSA list.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-27 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-23 0:02 Surround via SPDIF with ALSA/emu10k1? Thomas Zehetbauer
2005-08-27 18:18 ` Thomas Zehetbauer
2005-08-27 18:48 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-08-27 21:17 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-08-27 21:47 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-29 12:52 ` Lennart Sorensen
[not found] <4EuwG-3If-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-08-23 2:47 ` Robert Hancock
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