On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:20:36PM +1100, Jan Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 23:10 +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:53:08PM +1100, Jan Schmidt wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 22:40 +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > I am trying to get 5.1 digital sounds out of my linux box, but I have so > > > > many sliders in alsa mixer and they all seem to do strange things, but I > > > > can't seem to get 5.1 to my amp. > > > > > > I've actually been playing with this on my Audigy in the last week. > > > > > > > Has any one been able to do this ? > > > > > > Yep. > > > > > > > > > > > There are lots of > > > > EMU10K1 PCM > > > > EMU10K1 PCM Sending > > > > EMU10K1 PCM Routing > > > > > > You don't want to play with the send and routing sliders. They're > > > actually a bitmask that specifies how to connect the various channels in > > > the emu10k1 dsp to each other. > > > > Okay I have a coax cable to connect to the amp ,if I turn these off then > > I get no sound! > > SPDIF should be a single coax cable link, yes. > > > > You can only play 5.1 digital sound on an SPDIF channel in a compressed > > > form, ie AC3 or DTS. Apparently, SPDIF doesn't have sufficient bandwidth > > > to carry that many raw audio channels. I think it does at most 4. The > > > upshot of this is that you can only do 5.1 channels from a DVD player > > > like xine. > > > > > > To make that work, turn on the digital output from the card so that > > > 2-channel audio is coming out your amp correctly, and then set xine to > > > use 'AC3 passthrough' as the speaker configuration in the config dialog. > > > > can you do the same with mplayer ? > > I believe so. Here's an example off the net that I found: > > mplayer -ao alsa1x:default -ac hwac3 dvd://9
Hmmmm no luck just lots of tapping noise! > > Cheers > Jan > > -- > Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yeah. The whole climax thing would make much more sense > if I'd paid attention. > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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