> > 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.
Interesting. I was just pondering whether it would be possible to take the output from the DVB app VDR, which only seems to be via the spdif output of the DVB card, and then feed it back into the PC and out again via the digi 96/8 pad sound card to get high quality d/a conversion This seems to knock my idea on the head though... Darn.. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
