On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 07:46:20AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > >On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 01:03:28PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > >>I've just gotten a new setup with azalia > >> > >>Can I output ac3 with something like mplayer to spdif and then > >>decode it externally? > >>Or even better, decode it internally and output the channels? > > > >you can decode and play it locally. pretty sure your azalia codec > >supports multichannel output. you'll have to use the -channels > >switch in mplayer, or it will downmix to stereo by default. > > > >I don't have any s/pdif gear, so I can't really comment on that.
> Now how do I get these channels out? > I find the mixerctl output for this one, rather confusing read azalia(4). > inputs.dac-0:1_mute=off [ off on ] > inputs.dac-0:1=254,254 > inputs.dac-2:3_mute=off [ off on ] > inputs.dac-2:3=126,126 > inputs.vendor_mute=off [ off on ] > inputs.vendor=126,126 oh, this is the value version, with only two dacs and a "vendor" widget where the third dac should be. sorry, I was wrong. you can't do 5.1 analog output with this codec. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
