On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 22:32 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > What happens now if I do > aplay -D spdif something.wav > ? Most certainly not the soundcard with the S/PDIF output gets used. > Instead some nonsense happens. >
It will try to play to the spdif interface on card 0 (the onboard one) which will fail. aplay -D spdif:1 something.wav should DTRT. I realize this is not the most user friendly scheme (but it's certainly a step forward from "/dev/dspX") - please describe in detail what you think a user friendly interface would look like. Lee
