James, Thank you. I will try arecord.
Robbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Courtier-Dutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Takashi Iwai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 12:36 AM Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Audiophile 2496 S/PDIF Support > Robert Robinson wrote: > > >Takashi, > > > >I had communication from Kysela Jaroslav indicating that the Audiophile 2496 > >driver does support digital I/O. > >The problem may be that I have not been using an audio interface program > >that supports the digital option. This choice is never displayed as part of > >the I/O. > >Robbie > > > > > I own a SB Live card, and not an Audiophile 2496, but on the SB Live you > use alsamixer to select all the recording sources. Then you run arecord > and it records the sound from the multiple sources mixed together. > > The problem with the SB Live is that recording from the SPDIF is always > interpolated to 48kHz, some interpolation happens between 48Khz input > and the 48Khz of the sound card. In reality the sound quality does not > change, but it does cause problems if you are trying to capture an AC3 > or DTS signal, because the interpolation breaks it. > > A good program to test recording in is arecord, which comes with alsa. > > Cheers > James > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
