Noob question: why are ASI cards required to play MP2 files? From the “Features and Benefits” list on the Rivendell home page: "Support for both PCM16 and MPEG Layer 2 audio formats (MPEG Layer 2 support requires the use of select sound cards available from AudioScience Inc.).”
(ASI cards are required by BSI’s Simian to play MP2s on Windows, too.) Is the MP2 format so old there are no software decoders? Or is MP2 processing so intensive in real time that it must be offloaded to an external sound card? Is there a way for a RasPi Rivendale node to play MP2s without first converting the files to WAV? Frank Christel ______________ On 2/26/2020, at 5:49 PM, Fred Gleason <fr...@paravelsystems.com> wrote: ...Not all ASI cards are supported in any given driver version. For CentOS 7 setups, we provide three, v4.13.0, v4.20.10 and 4.20.21 (with v4.20.21 being installed by default). Any ASI-5XXX or ASI-6XXX card (the ones with the orange colored mu-metal shields) should be able to work with one of those drivers, although sometimes some experimentation is required to find out which driver does the trick… That said, ASI-4XXX cards (the ones with the blue mu-metal shields) are NOT supported in Rivendell at all. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
