Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA vs M-Audio fast track ULTRA

2008-08-22 Thread V Gabriele De Palo
James Shatto ha scritto: It looks like this might be your issue: La periferica di riproduzione è hw:0 I parametri dello stream sono 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 canali Using 16 octaves of pink noise ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.namehint.exten

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 23-08-08 00:00, James Shatto wrote: >>> mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob >> I'd have figured that out :-) Didn't work with the 96/24 audio... > > Well, you could probably do the arecord method. > > arecord -D copy -t wav -c 2 -f S24_BE -r 96000 audio_track.wav > (unv

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ > >>> Interesting. Thanks. >> >> Check this out: >> >> http://dvd-a.info/Index.asp?stitle=neil+young >> >> 2 pages of mainly Neil Young DVD-A releases all containing tracks up >> to 24bit/176khz. Lots of people are ripping their DVD-A discs with >> the above

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread James Shatto
> > mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob > > I'd have figured that out :-) Didn't work with the 96/24 audio... Well, you could probably do the arecord method. arecord -D copy -t wav -c 2 -f S24_BE -r 96000 audio_track.wav (unverified syntax) Set record to the PCM / VOL devi

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 23:44, Grant wrote: >>> http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ >> Interesting. Thanks. > > Check this out: > > http://dvd-a.info/Index.asp?stitle=neil+young > > 2 pages of mainly Neil Young DVD-A releases all containing tracks up > to 24bit/176khz. Lots of people are ripping their DVD-

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 23:44, James Shatto wrote: >> Those are the two I have here. mplayer was giving me endless grief >> actually ripping the tracks from the DVD so I haven't yet done that in >> fact, but: > > mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob I'd have figured that out :-) Didn'

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread James Shatto
> Those are the two I have here. mplayer was giving me endless grief > actually ripping the tracks from the DVD so I haven't yet done that in > fact, but: mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob Granted that my default distro supplied version of mplayer didn't work for this.

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
>> Can you rip and play back 20-bit HDCD audio? > > I could, with a hackish tool I have here, but I must say that for now I'm > experiencing the value in HDCD mosly in the fact that if something is an > HDCD it was produced by someone that gives a shit about sound quality and > stands a good chance

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA vs M-Audio fast track ULTRA

2008-08-22 Thread James Shatto
It looks like this might be your issue: > La periferica di riproduzione è hw:0 > I parametri dello stream sono 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 canali > Using 16 octaves of pink noise > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition > 'defaults.namehint.extended' > ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_s

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 23:09, Grant wrote: > Can you just mount the DVD and cp the tracks over? Probably not or > you would have done that. Not as individual tracks no. It's a regular DVD-Video, so you can copy over the VOBs ofcourse, but piecing things together requires processing them from harddisk the

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundcard, rather than from th

Re: [Alsa-user] Compilation of Alsa 1.0.17 and alsa-snapshot on Suse10.0 crashes

2008-08-22 Thread Vaclav Peroutka
Hello, I temporarily solved my problem. I just compiled cards I have (via82xx, bt87x, ice1724). Those functions are not necessary for them. But another problems rised. I can only use ICE1724 as a hw0 card and onboard via82xx . I mean, via82xx module can not be initialized without prior starting o

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 20:58, Grant wrote: >>> Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But >>> for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs >>> are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is >>> minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundca

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA vs M-Audio fast track ULTRA

2008-08-22 Thread V Gabriele De Palo
James Shatto ha scritto: It looks like you have all of the parts as far as kernel modules loaded. What are you trying to use the the card with? What does /proc/asound/ say about the card? cat /proc/asound/cards speakertest -c 2 -D hw:0 (change the 0 to match your cards index number, sin

[Alsa-user] Compilation of Alsa 1.0.17 and alsa-snapshot on Suse10.0 crashes

2008-08-22 Thread Vaclav Peroutka
Hello all, I recently bought M-Audio Revolution 5.1 card and problems appear. I have alsa 1.0.9a on my computer and when I set ice1724 driver I get rerally horrible sound ( worse than 8-bit parallel-port DAC). Furthermore I hava some strange "multitracks" in alsamixer. But nothing reasonable.

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
>> Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But >> for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs >> are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is >> minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundcard, rather than >> from the media th

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA vs M-Audio fast track ULTRA

2008-08-22 Thread James Shatto
It looks like you have all of the parts as far as kernel modules loaded. What are you trying to use the the card with? What does /proc/asound/ say about the card? cat /proc/asound/cards speakertest -c 2 -D hw:0 (change the 0 to match your cards index number, since usb probably isn't the pri

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 17:37, Grant wrote: >>> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to >>> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is >>> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? >> For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. >>

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA vs M-Audio fast track ULTRA

2008-08-22 Thread V Gabriele De Palo
Arthur Marsh ha scritto: V Gabriele De Palo wrote, on 19/08/08 11:08: James Shatto ha scritto: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:28:46 +0200 V Gabriele De Palo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has someone got the Fast Track Ultra from M-Audio working w

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 15:07, James Shatto wrote: > Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But > for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs > are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is > minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundca

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
>> >> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to >> >> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is >> >> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? > Just a non-relevent FWIW but my cheap $80 mobo does 24/96 with > an optical output and I think it also

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Mark A Jenks
I just bought this board and am working on building it into a myth box that I am building. Everything looked real good, and it installed good with Suse 11. Sound output looked good also. Uses the snd_oxygen CMI8788 module. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMA

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Mark Constable
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:37:31 am Grant wrote: > >> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to > >> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is > >> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? Just a non-relevent FWIW but my cheap $80 mobo does 24/96 wit

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
>> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to >> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is >> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? > > For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. > Note, I haven't any and you want to

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
>> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to >> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is >> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? > > For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. > Note, I haven't any and you want to

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
> I picked up a Delta 44 (pci / ice1712) off of craigslist for $100. I would > check to see what they need first. The Delta is a fine card, but by the time > you add in a microphone preamp, headphone preamp, and stuff just to record / > playback stuff. Not to mention the costs of cables and a

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread James Shatto
I picked up a Delta 44 (pci / ice1712) off of craigslist for $100. I would check to see what they need first. The Delta is a fine card, but by the time you add in a microphone preamp, headphone preamp, and stuff just to record / playback stuff. Not to mention the costs of cables and adapters

Re: [Alsa-user] Jetway NC62k, alc883 with iec958: pro blems with mp3 playback

2008-08-22 Thread Nylan
Solved the /dev/dsp issue: But no success with mp3 playback. Used the realtek alsa drivers: no success Used the latest alsa drivers: no success Booting Windows XP: playing mp3s works perfectly The same configuration worked for ADI1988B, must be a alc883 issue. No ideas? Thanks --

Re: [Alsa-user] echo after playing the sound

2008-08-22 Thread Pawel K
--- On Wed, 7/23/08, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  From: stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >    Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] echo after playing the sound >    To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >    Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net >    Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 2:13 PM > >    Pawel K wrote: >    >  >> >    >

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 21-08-08 16:15, Grant wrote: > I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to > add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is > 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. Note, I h

Re: [Alsa-user] CMI8788.

2008-08-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Mark A Jenks wrote: > I tried those commands in my 1.0.16 alsa, and it doesn't like them. Sorry, didn't test them. Try this: pcm_slave eightchannels { pcm "hw:0,0"# or "hw:1,0" for the second card channels 8 } pcm.stereo1 { type plug slave.pcm {