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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: HDMI with more than 2ch ?
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:47:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295938044.4107.1.camel@badjo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3E24BE.8030607@canonical.com>

Le mardi 25 janvier 2011 à 02:17 +0100, David Henningsson a écrit :
> According to your HDMI codec it only supports stereo output, not 
> 8-channel PCM. This is a limitation in your hardware, not in the HDMI 
> standard.
> 
> That is, if you want more channels, you probably want to ac3-encode the 
> audio data. 

I've found it's a driver problem. Please read the thread titled "ALSA
multichannel through HDMI" for the gory details.

	Xav

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-24  9:16 HDMI with more than 2ch ? Xavier Bestel
2011-01-24  9:22 ` Xavier Bestel
2011-01-25  1:17 ` David Henningsson
2011-01-25  6:47   ` Xavier Bestel [this message]

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