--- Lars_Hagström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi, > > I've sent this mail once before, but since I've received > no response I > send it again (only this once, I wont keep spamming...). > > I've scoured the net, the alsa-user list and this mailing > list for > information about how to enable AC3/DTS passthrough on > the S/PDIF > connector on my new Creative Mp3+ USB box. > The only thing I've been able to find is a vague > reference saying > something that spdif passthrough is not available in > usb-audio. Is this > the truth? If it is the truth, will it remain so forever, > or is anyone > working on it? > If it is not true, what am I doing wrong? I can get > regular stereo > output on the digital out. I've got the box set to > digital only, which > I've worked out is a requirement in windows. I have tried > playing stuff > both with "aplay -Dspdif" (is this correct?) and with > "mplayer -ac hwac3". Its not true: you can of course output to (input from) spdif on usb-devices. I think it makes no difference for the driver wether the hardware outputs to (inputs from) a DAC (ADC) or SPDIF.
I don't know anything about your device: maybe the driver isn't yet prepared for that feature? Maybe some (device/driver) documentation is missing? > > Would be very grateful for any help, since the > passthrough was really > the reason I bought the gadget, and I may be returning it > if it's not > going to work now or any time soon... > > If someone is working on support for this I would be more > than willing > to help in testing it. I can not volunteer to actually > develop it > myself, since I've never worked on anything thats even > closely related > to this stuff. But I will gladly help anyone who's > trying! > Karsten __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Logos und Klingeltöne fürs Handy bei http://sms.yahoo.de ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
