On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> I have a mac G4 (running debian testing), a ymfpci card (MaxiSound
> Fortissimo) with optical TOSlink out, and a yamaha HTR-5540 receiver with
> digital optical TOSlink input.
>
> I'm trying to get xine or some other DVD player to output AC/3 sound to
> the receiver for watching dvd's, and I have a couple of problems.
>
> 1) xmms (and xine 2-channel sound) works with OSS emulation, but is static
> with native ALSA drivers. This seems like some endian problem
>
> 2) spdif out does not seem to work. Here are some of the messages from
> xine:
>
> audio_alsa_out : supported modes are 8bit mono stereo (4-channel not enabled in
> xine config) (5-channel not enabled in xine config) (5.1-channel not enabled in
> xine config) a/52 and DTS pass-through
>
>
> audio_out: stream audio format is 48000 kHz sampling rate, 16 bits. mode is 1.
> audio_alsa_out: Audio Device name =
> iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2
> audio_alsa_out: Number of channels = 2
> audio_alsa_out: pcm hw_params failed: No such device or ALSA lib
> pcm_hw.c:292:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed: No
> such device or addressALSA lib pcm_hw.c:292:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params)
> SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed: No such device or address
>
>
> So where do I get started to fix this?
>
> Also, where can I get some short raw AC3 encoded sounds to test with
> something like aplay?
We have command-line ac3dec in our alsa-tools package.
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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