hmm, i dont think i can help. i just use the ac3 for movies and left right for mp3's
matt On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Philipp Taprogge wrote: > Hi! > > Thus spake Lee Revell on 27.01.2006 23:29: > > It seems that some Windows drivers have an option, when a stereo source > > is played back, to encode it on the fly to AC3. > > Indeed. > But it's more than that. Even if I generate output on the other > channels (i.e. with mplayer's channel mapping), the amp still only > sees 2.0 channels. > To my knowledge that is because sp/dif bandwidth is too low for more > that 2 channels unless they are compressed into an AC3 stream first. > So the only way to actually _get_ all the channels my hardware can > generate to my amp seems to be encoding the whole bunch into an AC3 > stream in real time. > > Regards, > > Phil > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
