Re: ALSA patch Nvidia 8 channel hdmi audio

[Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 03 of June 2009 00:30:04 Alan Alan wrote:
> Thank's for the info.
> How can i contact him ?

He and alsa-devel mailing list are both in CC already, please preserve them 
there or fix your mailer.
>
>
> 2009/6/3 Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
>
> > I'm not the author of the patch, CCing alsa-devel and the original
> > author.
> >
> > On Tuesday 02 of June 2009 23:58:26 Alan Alan wrote:
> > > Hi Marek !
> > >
> > > I just read your emailing with nvidia devs about alsa supporting 8
> >
> > channel
> >
> > > lpcm over hdmi.
> > >
> > > I checked it out an i have to tell it is working awsome, except for a
> > > few bugs:
> > >
> > > The channels are wrong mapped. Running a speakertest -Dhdmi -c6 gives
> > > the following result (first where it should sound)
> > > FL - FL
> > > C - RL
> > > FR - FR
> > > RR - LFE
> > > RL - C
> > >
> > > The other thing i realized that playback is limited to 16 bits 48 khz.
> > > I think the minimum which is supported by nvidia hardware is 24bits 96
> > > (or 192) khz.
> > > Why not ?
> > >
> > > Could you contact the devs as i don't know how to reach them.
> > >
> > > ps.: Mybe my build methot was not 100% ok ? I used 1.020 Alsa with the
> > > oatched nvidia.c file. Anyway the amplifier shows multichannel LPCM and
> > > that's great news.