Re: [alsa-devel] em8300 and ALSA problems

[Jan Willies <jan@willies.info>]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:32:29 +0100,
> Jan Willies wrote:
>> [root@server ~]# alsaplayer --verbose -o alsa -d hw:1,0 Strong.mp3 
>> AlsaPlayer 0.99.80
>> (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy@alsaplayer.org> and others.
>> Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12
>> error on set_format SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16
>> Unavailable hw params:
>> ACCESS:  RW_INTERLEAVED
>> FORMAT:  S16_BE
> 
> The device is supposed to be big-endian only.  Try plughw:1,0
> instead to convert endianness.

Yes, that seems to work! Only for analog output though. When I try with digital I get the same error again.

[jan@server ~]$ cat /proc/asound/devices 
  0: [ 0]   : control
  1:        : sequencer
 16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
 25: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture
 32: [ 1]   : control
 33:        : timer
 48: [ 1- 0]: digital audio playback
 49: [ 1- 1]: digital audio playback

[root@server ~]# alsaplayer --verbose -o alsa -d plughw:1,1 Strong.mp3 
AlsaPlayer 0.99.80
(C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy@alsaplayer.org> and others.
Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12
error on set_format SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16
Unavailable hw params:
ACCESS:  RW_INTERLEAVED
FORMAT:  IEC958_SUBFRAME_BE
[...]

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