On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Ashendra Singh wrote:
> hi,
>
> Firstly, please excuse my ignorance of the alsa sound system and now:
>
> I'm trying to route an ac3 stream from my RME's optical in through ac3dec and
> then out the analogue ports of the same RME but am having little success.
> i know the optical in works, the ac3 stream coming in is heard as noise from
> my analogue outs (using amixer cset to set the input), what i need is to
> essentially pipe the incoming stream first into ac3dec and not my outs.
>
> any help in this regard (pointers to other resources, mixer setups, config
> files asoundrc, asound.state) would be of great help.
It is not possible with current ac3dec. The ac3dec expects the ac3 stream
without pads and special preambles which are in the IEC958 (S/PDIF) stream.
It is possible to write a convertor, of course.
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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