Ignore my last post. I got it thanks.
For the benefit of others:
1. Selected All views by pressing F5
2. Moved to S/PDIF-i (had MM under it)
3. Pressed 'M' to un-mute the input.
D
On 2 October 2010 11:09, nidujay <nidu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Thor thanks for the reply.
>
> Would you be able to give me a bit more info on how to use the SPDIF input?
> I'm not having much luck. Here's what I tried:
>
> $ cat /proc/asound/devices
> 2: : timer
> 3: : sequencer
> 4: [ 0- 4]: digital audio playback
> 5: [ 0- 3]: digital audio playback
> 6: [ 0- 2]: digital audio playback
> 7: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
> 8: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
> 9: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
> 10: [ 0] : control
> 11: [ 1- 0]: raw midi
> 12: [ 1] : control
>
> $ arecord -D hw:0,0 -r44100 -d 10 test.wav
>
> test.wav was blank.
>
> What did you mean by "the mixer control muted"? Is it the gains you see in
> alsamixer? The mic gain was 0/100 which I set to 100/100 with no luck.
>
> Thanks again.
> D
>
>
>
> On 2 October 2010 03:30, Thor Kristoffersen <tho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> nidujay <nidu...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > I've got a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe sound card which I
>> > purchased for the following 2 reasons:
>> >
>> > 1. It supports sound fonts
>> > 2. I require an SPDIF optical input
>> >
>> > My OS is UbuntuStudio 10.04 which I believe uses alsa version 1.0.22.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get either of the above working
>> (Ok I
>> > haven't investigated (2) very deeply yet).
>>
>> The SPDIF input actually works. The problem is that it isn't possible
>> to do capture with that mixer control muted, becuase muting the control
>> also turns off capture. See my post about a month ago for more
>> information about this issue. For some applications this bug may not
>> matter much, but it makes the X-Fi Titanium unusable for real-time audio
>> processing applications.
>>
>> Thor
>>
>
>
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