[Alsa-user] Problem with A52 playback - again

2008-04-17 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hello list, I'm running into a very strange problem with a52 sound output: I had it all setup and working (http://johannes-bauer.com/dolby/) but had to reinstall my system completely as I had an architectural upgrade (I'm now on a Core2 Duo Gentoo system, -march=nocona). When trying to play mo

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Card with C-Media Suggestions

2008-02-05 Thread Johannes Bauer
Jim Duda schrieb: > All I really need is the following: > - PCI card > - C-Media CMI8738 (or similiar) > - Coax SPDIF connector Have you had a look at the Terratec soundcard line? I believe some have Coax SPDIF output. Mine (the Aureon 5.1) only has optical fiber output. Greetings, Johannes ---

Re: [Alsa-user] Opposite of "type multi" plugin?

2008-02-01 Thread Johannes Bauer
Takashi Iwai schrieb: > Depends on the hardware. Your descrption sounds like a CMIPCI. In > that case, it's a bit hard to do that way because both outputs share > the same DAC. So, the source must be exclusive. You are exactly right! It is a CMIPCI. But are you sure it only has one DAC? $ ca

Re: [Alsa-user] a52 plugin: mplayer get A/V-async

2008-02-01 Thread Johannes Bauer
Adam Nielsen schrieb: >> >> When a movie doesn't play, it shows weird behaviour: the video is >> >> playing *extremely* slowly, the audio plays just fine for about the >> >> first 100 seconds. Then mplayer gets so out of sync that it commits >> >> suicide in a way. Here is some output: > > > > IIRC

Re: [Alsa-user] a52 plugin: mplayer get A/V-async

2008-02-01 Thread Johannes Bauer
Alexander E. Patrakov schrieb: > I think it is a problem with mplayer or alsa-lib, not with a52 plugin, > because I am able to reproduce a similar effect by just running dmix at > 192 kHz 32 bit. To do so, create ~/.asoundrc that contains just two lines: > > defaults.pcm.dmix.rate 192000 > defaul

[Alsa-user] a52 plugin: mplayer get A/V-async

2008-01-31 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hello list, there's another problem I encountered with the a52 plugin *sigh*... I have it setup so it does routing and then A52 encoding. Everything works beautifully using xmms. Some movies play just fine with mplayer. Others don't. I have no idea why. When a movie doesn't play, it shows weird b

Re: [Alsa-user] Opposite of "type multi" plugin?

2008-01-31 Thread Johannes Bauer
Adam Nielsen schrieb: >> /-- route -> A52 >> default -> ... -> softvol -> duplicate -< >> \-- hw0,0 >> >> Where at hw0,0 my headphones are connected. How is such a setup possible? > > Couldn't you use the multi plug

Re: [Alsa-user] Opposite of "type multi" plugin?

2008-01-27 Thread Johannes Bauer
Adam Nielsen schrieb: > Couldn't you use the multi plugin for this anyway? If you bound "hw0,0" > and "route" in your diagram above to a single four-channel device, then > you could bind the incoming stereo signal to both the "front" and "rear" > speakers of the four channel device, effectively s

[Alsa-user] Opposite of "type multi" plugin?

2008-01-26 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hello list, is there a plugin which does the opposite of the "multi" plugin, i.e. it should duplicate a stream and have multiple slaves (one stream to multiple)? The reason I'd need this: default goes (over some corners) to the softvol plugin, which goes to route which encodes a A52 stream. Now I

Re: [Alsa-user] Multi Channels only working in passthrough mode

2008-01-25 Thread Johannes Bauer
Jim Duda schrieb: > I'm trying to do the same thing you are. My linux distribution (Fedora 7) > doesn't include the a52 plugin by default. I > had to download and build the alsa-plugins from the alsa site. Alright, I got this running for my Gentoo box... > After getting the a52 plugin compil

Re: [Alsa-user] Multi Channels only working in passthrough mode

2008-01-25 Thread Johannes Bauer
Johannes Bauer schrieb: > Hello list, Problem fixed. Howto uploaded. Greetings, Johannes - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT

[Alsa-user] Multi Channels only working in passthrough mode

2008-01-21 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hello list, I'm trying to get my surround system working, especially routing the 5.1 channels I have when there is only a stereo playback. This means that the rear speakers and (especially) the subwoofer should output something when I play "normal" music. What I've got working so far: When playin

[Alsa-user] Forcing asound.conf routing for OSS kernel drivers

2008-01-20 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hello list, upon fiddling with my ALSA config and through the conversation with Adam Nielsen I encountered that when using the OSS kernel driver emulation for ALSA (i.e. not the userland "aoss" emulation) the profile which is stored in /etc/asound.conf is ignored. This seems logical, as kernel ac

[Alsa-user] Software volume mixer for S/PDIF output

2008-01-11 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hello list, I have recently switched to a 5.1 Dolby Digital system and was surprised how nicely everything worked with ALSA. There is however one problem which I have - read through a lot of forums, but did not find a satisfying answer. I'm using my soundcards (Terratec Aureon 5.1 = C-Media Elect