From: "Clemens Ladisch" <cladisch@fastmail.net>
To: John Dey <jsdey@optonline.net>
Cc: Alsa Dev <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Re: External Sound Card
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:46:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193770011.12482.1218656185@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f9e5c7d049a400c4f397c1e821bf542@optonline.net>
John Dey wrote:
> Thanks for your response. The 5.1 or 7.1 capability is not as
> important to me as having 6 or 8 independent jack channels to connect
> 4 or 8 channels from an application (ambiosonics from aeolus). Without
> adding the a52 plugin would I see more than 2 outputs in qjackctl?
No; SPDIF has been designed to transport two channels. The only way to
get the data of more channels through SPDIF is to compress it with some
algorithm like AC-3/DD/DTS.
> With the plugin would I see 6 outputs?
Yes.
HTH
Clemens
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-30 14:51 External Sound Card John Dey
2007-10-30 17:19 ` Clemens Ladisch
2007-10-30 17:46 ` John Dey
2007-10-30 18:46 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
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