i'm actually trying to just route the stream through a software decoder (not necessarily ac3dec) , even into a file , and then back out again
> 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 > > ----- > Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer > ALSA Project, SuSE Labs ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
