Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to get a C-Media card's spdif working...

2005-12-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 22:44 -0700, Chad wrote: > Evening! > > I don't really no where to start or what information to provide, so > I'll start light and hope someone can guide me from there :) > > To start off: > I have a fairly decent understanding of linux. I can follow a how-to > pretty well,

[Alsa-user] Trying to get a C-Media card's spdif working...

2005-12-30 Thread Chad
Evening! I don't really no where to start or what information to provide, so I'll start light and hope someone can guide me from there :) To start off: I have a fairly decent understanding of linux. I can follow a how-to pretty well, and understand most of the lingo. I've read a lot (everything

[Alsa-user] Re: Keeping multiple cards in sync

2005-12-30 Thread Jon B
> For starters, one may start measuring average frequency of interrupt > requests generated by both cards provided both of the play the same > length buffer. > > The measure of the average frequency will be the computers RTC. > > I am not saying that it is simple, and yes, prior knowledge, like NTP

Re: [Alsa-user] Need help mapping Alsa to OSS devices (3rd try)

2005-12-30 Thread Adam Nielsen
> The way things are working now, I am only able to use two of the four > input channels with this program; it sees them as a single stereo > device, but doesn't see the other two channels at all. So these are four mono ins/outs? Can you post the relevant sections of your ALSA config file showing

Re: [Alsa-user] Keeping multiple cards in sync

2005-12-30 Thread Adam Nielsen
> Is there some way to test the cards and measure their frequency? If > so, you could do a pretty full-blown NTP for sound cards and that > would be pretty freakin cool. I know when programming the old SoundBlaster 16 cards they would trigger an interrupt when they switched output buffers (so you

Re: [Alsa-user] Keeping multiple cards in sync (was: Assertion `snd_pcm_format_linear(slv->format)' failed)

2005-12-30 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:42:32PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > LDAS (the low delay audio streamer) does something similar - it has to > compensate for the drift between two machines clocks' that exchange > audio over the network but you could apply the algorithm to two cards on > one box. It uses t

[Alsa-user] Re: getting optical spdif input into a pvr-250

2005-12-30 Thread Tony Lill
Craig Tinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > new to the list so please bear with me.. have spent the last 7 hours > trying to figure this out... > > this must be possible somehow - I have a pvr-250 capture card that > dumps video *and* audio (via a 3.5m jack line-in) to an mpeg stream. > > I have a

[Alsa-user] Re: Alsa-user digest, Vol 1 #2894 - 8 msgs

2005-12-30 Thread cass
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Re: [Alsa-user] Assertion `snd_pcm_format_linear(slv->format)' failed

2005-12-30 Thread Adam Nielsen
> incidentally, I used to work with LADSPA equalizer plugin, and I have > a natively stereo version. Furthermore, my code is written as Perl/C > combination, so with a flip of your fingers you can actually get > whatever number of channels. That sounds interesting... I think the problem is that t

Re: [Alsa-user] getting optical spdif input into a pvr-250

2005-12-30 Thread Adam Nielsen
> I have a cmedia card with optical input - and I want the resulting > mpeg stream to have full surround.. Most optical/coax digital inputs (at least with common PC gear) are only stereo. In order to have surround you'd need AC3 data sent over the SPDIF connection, and then I'm not sure whether i

Re: [Alsa-user] Keeping multiple cards in sync (was: Assertion `snd_pcm_format_linear(slv->format)' failed)

2005-12-30 Thread Sergei Steshenko
For starters, one may start measuring average frequency of interrupt requests generated by both cards provided both of the play the same length buffer. The measure of the average frequency will be the computers RTC. I am not saying that it is simple, and yes, prior knowledge, like NTP, should be

Re: [Alsa-user] Keeping multiple cards in sync (was: Assertion `snd_pcm_format_linear(slv->format)' failed)

2005-12-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:36 -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:45:48PM +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote: > > I've always wondered about this. Fair enough that two cards would play > > back sound at slightly different speeds, but why can't you just drop a > > sample or two every fe

[Alsa-user] Re: Alsa-user digest, Vol 1 #2893 - 11 msgs

2005-12-30 Thread cass
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Re: [Alsa-user] Keeping multiple cards in sync (was: Assertion `snd_pcm_format_linear(slv->format)' failed)

2005-12-30 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:45:48PM +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote: > I've always wondered about this. Fair enough that two cards would play > back sound at slightly different speeds, but why can't you just drop a > sample or two every few milliseconds or so, to keep the sound roughly in > sync? How do

[Alsa-user] getting optical spdif input into a pvr-250

2005-12-30 Thread Craig Tinson
new to the list so please bear with me.. have spent the last 7 hours trying to figure this out... this must be possible somehow - I have a pvr-250 capture card that dumps video *and* audio (via a 3.5m jack line-in) to an mpeg stream. I have a cmedia card with optical input - and I want the re

[Alsa-user] Need help mapping Alsa to OSS devices (3rd try)

2005-12-30 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi -- I've asked this question on the list twice before, but have never gotten a response. Unfortunately, my need is getting urgent so I'd really appreciate any help. I have a Delta44 card (ice1712) with four ins/outs. The application I'm using (Baudline spectrum analyzer) supports only the OSS

[Alsa-user] Re: Terratec Phase 28 help

2005-12-30 Thread eric
conrad berhörster gmx.de> writes: > > No, the driver is not finished right now > sizu c~ Thanks . but do you have idea to driver error ? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Sto

Re: [Alsa-user] Terratec Phase 28 help

2005-12-30 Thread conrad berhörster
No, the driver is not finished right now sizu c~ Am Freitag 30 Dezember 2005 16:25 schrieb Eric Rantrua: > Hello list , i have always same problem with Terratec sound card and > alsa > > i use 8 channels of the terratec card , 6 works perfectly but 2 (front) > > have some distorsions. > > > my ques

[Alsa-user] Terratec Phase 28 help

2005-12-30 Thread Eric Rantrua
Hello list , i have always same problem with Terratec sound card and alsa i use 8 channels of the terratec card , 6 works perfectly but 2 (front) have some distorsions. my question , do you know person who use phase 28 with no problems on front channels ? my configuration: Debian Sarge , als

Re: [Alsa-user] Assertion `snd_pcm_format_linear(slv->format)' failed

2005-12-30 Thread Sergei Steshenko
Adam, incidentally, I used to work with LADSPA equalizer plugin, and I have a natively stereo version. Furthermore, my code is written as Perl/C combination, so with a flip of your fingers you can actually get whatever number of channels. The plugin is optimized in a sense that mutual for all ch

Re: [Alsa-user] M-Audio Revolution 5.1 - SP/DIF out

2005-12-30 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Does simple 'aplay -Dplug:spdif foo.wav' work? === On Friday 30 December 2005 13:36, Pieter-Jan Malfait wrote: === hello, i'm trying to get all my sound throught the SP/DIF (coax) output of my card. i'm using the latest development drivers (1.0.11rc1) because it is the only version that

[Alsa-user] M-Audio Revolution 5.1 - SP/DIF out

2005-12-30 Thread Pieter-Jan Malfait
hello, i'm trying to get all my sound throught the SP/DIF (coax) output of my card. i'm using the latest development drivers (1.0.11rc1) because it is the only version that supports the M-Audio Revolution 5.1 I have according to the wiki, set up a dmix device to adjust the sound to proper settin

[Alsa-user] alsa-1.0.10 / OpenAL

2005-12-30 Thread Peter Ganzhorn
Hi, it seems like OpenAL is broken with alsa-1.0.10. I am unable to compile OpenAL since using kernel 2.6.14 which includes alsa-1.0.10rc1. Sadly the hardware-accelerated version of OpenAL is broken, too. Despite the fact it compiles without any errors, the created lib seems to be unable to produ