From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugtrack@alsa-project.org Subject: [ALSA - driver 0000669]: Creative SB Live! 24-bit External (USB) works only at a minimal level. Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 16:51:37 +0100 Message-ID: <68576dfa04d6dcf828676b24c8850815@bugtrack.alsa-project.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bugtrack.alsa-project.org (gate.perex.cz [85.132.177.35]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id 486A216F for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 16:51:37 +0100 (MET) Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Reported By: Henni Assigned To: Clemens Ladisch ====================================================================== Project: ALSA - driver Issue ID: 669 Category: USB - usb-audio Reproducibility: always Severity: feature Priority: normal Status: assigned Distribution: Gentoo 2004.3 Kernel Version: 2.6.9-cko3 ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 11-23-2004 19:23 CET Last Modified: 12-03-2005 16:51 CET ====================================================================== Summary: Creative SB Live! 24-bit External (USB) works only at a minimal level. Description: The Creative SB Live! 24-bit External is a "card" similar to the Audigy 2 NX (probably its litte brother). With the snd-usb-audio the ''only'' thing working is the stereo output. I read that the Audigy 2 NX works far better with the snd-usb-audio. Probably there is a way to get the SB Live! 24-bit on a similar lvl? PS: I added some informations about it as an attachment. ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Henni - 05-23-05 12:37 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I retested everything with ALSA Version 1.0.9-rc3 and now the Optical Digital Out works perfect (I didn't test the Coaxial Out) with mplayer: Tested with following output formats: *) Dolby Digital AC3 2.0 *) Dolby Digital AC3 5.1 *) DTS 5.1 *) DTS 6.1 *) PCM Only thing you have to is to set the AudioOut Device of mplayer to -ao alsa:device=default (if you try to use -ao alsa without device=default it tries to open a iec9.. device which doesn't work) and using Audiocodec hwac3 (for DD) or hwdts (for DTS). 4 Channel and 6 Channel Mode are working perfectly (at the DigitalOut you only get PCM-Stereo) using the Speaker outputs of the device. There are no more problems setting the Volume higher than aroung 75% (in the past it stopped playing and you had to reload the driver). The only thing you have to do is to unmute it when you change the output at the device (as an example if you unplug the digital-out and plug in headphones.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rev_jazz - 12-03-05 16:51 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- No digital passthrough for Creative Audigy 2 NX I tried with alsa1.0.9a (on an ubuntu) to wake work the ac3 passthrough (with an extarnal decoder) usiing the coaxial digital out. It didn't work fine at all neither using mplayer with -ao alsa:device=default -ac hwac3 nor with xine. mplayer issues in two ways: 1- says : alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: iec958:{CARD 0 AES0 0x02 AES1 0x82 AES2 0x0 0 AES3 0x02} ALSA lib pcm.c:1959:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM iec958:{CARD 0 AES0 0x02 AES1 0x82 AES2 0x00 AES3 0x02} definition (id: iec958, value: cards.pcm.ie c958) or 2- sends to extarnal amplifier lots of crack and gap noise It's to be no configuration way to make the ac3/dts digital out passthrough work regards, jazz PS: alsa default is set to PCM Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 11-23-04 19:23 Henni New Issue 11-23-04 19:23 Henni File Added: output.txt 11-23-04 19:23 Henni Distribution => Gentoo 2004.3 11-23-04 19:23 Henni Kernel Version => 2.6.9-cko3 11-23-04 19:58 Henni Issue Monitored: Henni 11-23-04 21:09 pzad Note Added: 0002527 11-24-04 00:51 Henni Note Added: 0002540 01-09-05 02:04 kempokaraterulzNote Added: 0003133 03-19-05 02:04 chaosmcgruff Issue Monitored: chaosmcgruff 05-23-05 12:37 Henni Note Added: 0004703 12-03-05 16:51 rev_jazz Note Added: 0006899 ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. 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