Re: [Alsa-user] Capturing and playing dolby digital steam

2014-10-22 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Alan Bromborsky wrote: > could you explain why > > arecord -f cd -D plughw:0,1 | aplay - > > works with 5.1 channel ac3 streams even though I have "-f cd" set. AC-3 is a mechanism designed to transport surround sound over S/PDIF, which has only two channels. It compresses the data so that it has

Re: [Alsa-user] No sound with Realtek ALC3226

2014-10-22 Thread John Frankish
Bump - any help would be gratefully received. -Original Message- From: John Frankish [mailto:john.frank...@outlook.com] Sent: Wednesday, 15 October, 2014 12:11 To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] No sound with Realtek ALC3226 I also tried using hda-analyzer to en