Re: [Alsa-user] Attempting to redirect (and understand) ALSA

2010-11-17 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:32:01 +1100 (EST) "Howard Lowndes" wrote: > I can get sound by doing: > arecord -D plughw:2,0 | aplay I have a SAA7134 hybrid too and when I used to do analogue stuff, I didn't use the internal connector but I can't remember why. If you can figure that out, it's probably

Re: [Alsa-user] Basic S/PDIF Recording

2010-10-25 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:45:10 -0400 Paul Braman wrote: > Interesting, but I see a couple of idiological problems with this > approach. > > "dat" implies reading 32-bit frames at a rate of 48KHz. That's all > fine and good but an S/PDIF bitstream is going to be pumping data > faster than that rate

Re: [Alsa-user] Basic S/PDIF Recording

2010-10-25 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:18:03 +0100 James Le Cuirot wrote: > Apparently a PLL is needed to synchronise the clock frequency but I > haven't been able to determine whether any sound cards out there have > these at all. I've heard of some Creative cards having on-board AC3 >

Re: [Alsa-user] Basic S/PDIF Recording

2010-10-25 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:50:19 -0400 Paul Braman wrote: > I'll assume I want to read in blocks of 1536 bytes-at-a-time as long > as ALSA is properly synchronizing to the S/PDIF frame and giving me > aligned blocks. Is this an assumption I can make? Probably not. I recently thought I would be cleve

Re: [Alsa-user] output from one application to input of another

2010-10-10 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 19:18:38 -0400 Michael Di Domenico wrote: > Is there a way to take the output from the first application and > redirect it into a /dev device for input into this second program? This may not be the answer you're looking for but I'm pretty sure PulseAudio can do this. There are

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa and Jack

2010-10-06 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 22:37:06 +0800 Samuel Kidman wrote: > I'm having issues getting audio programs that don't use jack to make > sounds while i'm running jack. as soon i quit jack everything works > again. Applications that use jack work fine when jack is running but > i can't get them to make a s

Re: [Alsa-user] No audio

2010-10-05 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:52:45 -0700 (PDT) jason grey wrote: > I am going insane, as I do not have the time to find the problem.  I > changed from Ubuntu 9.10 to the 10.  My audio onboard used to work, > with screen speakers or headphones and now stopped.  I followed the > online list of checks from

Re: [Alsa-user] Basic PCM Recording

2010-10-05 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:30:37 -0400 Paul Braman wrote: > The problem is that there is no good way to discover or set these > things that seems "official." There are semi-official suggestions of > "set to maximum buffer and divide into four periods" or "buffer about > a second and divide into about

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe support

2010-10-01 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:40:50 +0200 Thor Kristoffersen wrote: > Ok, I have the following requirements to a soundcard: > - PCI Express > - 96kHz/24-bit > - Optical SPDIF I/O > - Works correctly in ALSA > > Do you know of any card that fulfils these requirements? (Preferably > less than EUR250

[Alsa-user] Recording from S/PDIF in surround with Intel HDA

2010-08-19 Thread James Le Cuirot
Hello, I've just bought a new motherboard with an S/PDIF input bracket and have decided to ditch my ageing Audigy Drive because that's all I was using it for. With the Audigy, I simply had to plug the cable in and adjust the volume with alsamixer. I gather the Audigy does a lot behind the scenes

Re: [Alsa-user] hda-intel ad1998b troubles (front channels only)

2009-02-26 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:26:33 + (UTC) shy_reclusive_alsa_user wrote: > speaker-test --channels 8 (blah, blah...) I've only posted to this list once but I have a suggestion for you. What is this blah blah stuff? ;) You need to specify the device name when doing surround. For 8 channels, I gues

[Alsa-user] Prevent boom/pop when loading emu10k1?

2009-02-15 Thread James Le Cuirot
Hi guys, I have an Audigy 1 (Platinum) and I was wondering if there was any way to prevent the annoying boom/pop sound when loading the module. I notice that the default mixer levels aren't all muted - Master is but some of the others are set to 100%. Maybe this is the cause? I don't think this ha