Re: [Alsa-user] 24-bit and 96KHz file

2008-09-03 Thread Oliver Lupton
Amaury De Ganseman wrote: > Ok, thanks for your answer. > > But why don't use 96KHz as samplerate for output ? Why downsample to > 48KHz ? Use the native samplerate is too complicated ;-) ? > > I know that alsa by default use 48KHz (dmix) but if my song is in > 96KHz why not use this SR ? > > >

Re: [Alsa-user] Which 96kHz card ?

2008-08-12 Thread Oliver Lupton
Vaclav Peroutka wrote: > Hello all, > > I started to experimenting with Software Defined Radio so I need some higher > quality sound card. I could buy Creative SB Audigy SE which has 24bit stereo > sampling @96kHz but it is not yet supported. > > Can somebody here recommend me some other 24b/96

Re: [Alsa-user] how do I change sample rate ?

2008-04-27 Thread Oliver Lupton
Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:29:11 +0100 > Oliver Lupton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Sergei Steshenko wrote: >>> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:19:34 +0200 >>> Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> mplayer

[Alsa-user] Creative Audigy 4 Non-Pro: p16v, p17v, resampling...a mystery!

2007-11-25 Thread Oliver Lupton
Is there anyone on-list that can explain what the audigy4 non-pro actually can and cannot do? I've heard a lot of vauge and conflicting stories.. Firstly, I've heard (both from other people, and I believe I can hear the difference) that all audio is resampled to 48kHz when output. Creative were in

Re: [Alsa-user] Dumping 96000, S24_BE using "file" plugin

2007-11-10 Thread Oliver Lupton
Rene Herman wrote: > Good day. > > I'm trying to use the "file" plugin to dump stereo 96 kHz, S24_BE LPCM from > DVD to a file: > > $ mplayer -ao alsa:device=file=track01 -vo null dvd://1 -chapter 1-1 > > which isn't working: > > | ==

Re: [Alsa-user] HDA (Realtek ALC883) and surround sound

2007-09-09 Thread Oliver Lupton
Daniel Drake wrote: > Now, I guess I want to set this system-wide, and preferably also using > dmix. Is this a sensible thing to do, or will applications automatically > use the correct surroundXY mixer on their own? I *think* that ALSA applications are supposed to use the surroundXY devices au

Re: [Alsa-user] HDA (Realtek ALC883) and surround sound

2007-09-08 Thread Oliver Lupton
Daniel Drake wrote: > I'm trying to get surround working with this setup. I raise all mixers > in alsamixer and then I run: > speaker-test -c 4 > > and it cycles through all 4 channels: > > For "front left", I hear the pink noise in both the front left and rear > left speakers > For "fron

Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel: problem setting 6 channels out on ALC861

2007-06-14 Thread Oliver Lupton
Willem Granjé wrote: > On 6/14/07, *Oliver Lupton* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Willem Granjé wrote: > > I have a barebone Asus Pundit P1 AH2 with onboard ALC861. On the back > > there are 3 jacks for

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround on VIA82xx?

2007-05-24 Thread Oliver Lupton
Per Toft wrote: >> S/PDIF supports either two PCM (uncompressed) channels or passthrough of >> lossily encoded multichannel (up to 8 channels can be used then afaik). >> >> speaker-test, as you tried to run it, is generating 6 PCM (uncompressed) >> streams, and as S/PDIF can only carry 2 PCM channe

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround on VIA82xx?

2007-05-24 Thread Oliver Lupton
Per Toft wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: >> On 5/21/07, Per Toft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I have huge problems enabling surround on a VIA VT1617A sound card using >>> the ALSA via82xx module. >>> >>> The problem is that i have sound on the front left & right speaker, but >>> nothing on

Re: [Alsa-user] Obsolete OSS audio interface

2007-05-03 Thread Oliver Lupton
Alexander Dietz wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I updated my linux (using "yum update") to install the latest alsa > driver, but now I still cannot play any audio-file. I get an error whan= > trying to cat a sound file to /dev/dsp: >=20 >> cat sound.au > /dev/dsp > bash: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy >=20

Re: [Alsa-user] Help with alsa and Debian please!

2007-04-30 Thread Oliver Lupton
Simon Blomberg wrote: > Running update-modules... > Loading driver... > WARNING: Error inserting snd > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-amd64/updates/alsa/acore/snd.ko): Unknown symbol > in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) > WARNING: Error inserting snd_timer > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-amd64/updates/al

Re: [Alsa-user] nForce 430 / ASUS M2NPV-VM snd_hda_intel (surround) sound problems

2007-04-16 Thread Oliver Lupton
Oliver Lupton wrote: On my A8N-VM then it's working with *init_verbs* commented, max_channels set to 6 and num_dacs set to 3. I haven't tried it, but if you're changing num_init_verbs to 1 then it looks like spec->init_verbs[2] = ad1986a_ch2_init; should have spec->init_ve

Re: [Alsa-user] nForce 430 / ASUS M2NPV-VM snd_hda_intel (surround) sound problems

2007-04-14 Thread Oliver Lupton
Prakash Punnoor wrote: > OK, I was right. Taking out ad1986a_3st_init_verbs is enough for making it > work: > > case AD1986A_3STACK: > spec->num_mixers = 2; > spec->mixers[1] = ad1986a_3st_mixers; > spec->num_init_verbs = 1;//2; > //sp

[Alsa-user] [Fwd: Re: nForce 430 / ASUS M2NPV-VM snd_hda_intel (surround) sound problems]

2007-04-14 Thread Oliver Lupton
Oops, sent this the wrong way! --- Begin Message --- Prakash Punnoor wrote: Hah! I managed it!!! Just tested with speaker-test, so far. I hacked the driver a bit: In patch_analog.c in static int patch_ad1986a(struct hda_codec *codec) case AD1986A_3STACK: spec->num_mixe

[Alsa-user] 5.1 capable USB (or Firewire) soundcards?

2007-04-09 Thread Oliver Lupton
Can anyone recommend a USB (or Firewire) soundcard which is definitely capable of 5.1 surround output? After a lot of fiddling trying to make my onboard chip output 5.1 (hda-intel, AD1986A chip on Asus A8N-VM CSM motherboard) I'm finally thinking of giving up on that and using an external card.

Re: [Alsa-user] About to give up... Surround Sound Card rec?

2007-02-23 Thread Oliver Lupton
Trevor Bradley wrote: > The onboard snd_hda_intel on my nForce 430 / ASUS M2NPV-VM is just too > damned frustrating. I might have managed to get it working on my HTPC > backend in stereo as long as I don't look at it funny, but on my front > end, even with ivtv properly installed, sound isn't

Re: [Alsa-user] nForce 430 / ASUS M2NPV-VM snd_hda_intel (surround) sound problems

2007-02-19 Thread Oliver Lupton
Trevor Bradley wrote: > As posted to linuxquestions.org. They redirected me here... > > --- > > Please, for the sweet love of Zombie Jeebus, help me. > > I have two machines using an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, both running > Slackware Linux 11.0. One machine is my home file+web server and Myth