From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Clemens Ladisch" Subject: Re: External Sound Card Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:46:51 +0100 Message-ID: <1193770011.12482.1218656185@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1193764791.29333.1218639071@webmail.messagingengine.com> <7f9e5c7d049a400c4f397c1e821bf542@optonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D5724350 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:46:52 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7f9e5c7d049a400c4f397c1e821bf542@optonline.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: John Dey Cc: Alsa Dev List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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