Re: spdif-trough and snd_ctl_elem_*

[joy <joy@pingfm.org>]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 02:25:58PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> the implementation of controls for iec958 is fairly dependent on each
> card.  some card needs more initialization and some not.  it's true
> that this might be confusing if you want to access such switches
> _directly_.
> 
> on alsa, instead of tweaking these lowlevel stuffs, you can use an
> abstraction pcm layer.
> typically, the pcm "iec958" (or "spdif" equivalently) does all such a
> job.  the iec958 pcm accepts arguments which represent status bytes.
> 
> 	iec958:AES0=0xXXXX,AES1=0xXXXX,AES2=0xXXXX,AES3=0xXXXX
> 
thanx for your reply, i will give it a try, but this kind of init
needs some more rewrite i have expected and i have currently no
iec958-capable-device to do real tests, so users have to wait bit ;)

> well, it seems that ens1371 has still no configuration for iec958.
> so, the right way is to add this stuff...
?
should i add it? will you add it? on which device is the iec958
running on the ens1371? i guess its hw:0,0

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