From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751200AbVHWDBF (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:01:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751203AbVHWDBF (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:01:05 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:52984 "EHLO pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751200AbVHWDBE (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:01:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:47:44 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Surround via SPDIF with ALSA/emu10k1? In-reply-to: <4EuwG-3If-19@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <430A8E50.3030109@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <4EuwG-3If-19@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > Now I can either enable the 'SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack' switch > and use the SPDIF connector to my DD5.1 surround system OR mute this > control and access/unmute the rear/center/LFE channels. Using analog > cabling is not an option as the DTT2500 has no connector for the > center/LFE channels. If the speaker system has no analog input for those channels, then there is no way to play back content through them unless it is Dolby Digital encoded. (There's no way to put more than 2-channel audio through SPDIF unless it's encoded such as by Dolby Digital or DTS.) The sound card is not capable of doing this, so if the content is not Dolby Digital already, this would have to be handled by some software. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/