Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound over S/PDIF with M Audio Delta 1010LT

2010-01-20 Thread Marco Gusy
In data giovedì 14 gennaio 2010 00:08:00, Nils Erik Svangård ha scritto: > == > Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder > AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 7 ch, s16be, 6272.0 kbit/87.50% (ratio: 784000->896000) > Selected a

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound over S/PDIF with M Audio Delta 1010LT

2010-01-13 Thread Nils Erik Svangård
Hi! I'm trying to get the most out of my surround system. Now I'm trying to get LPCM pass through directly to my receiver over S/DIF. I'm not getting it to work. Could it be that it is supposed to be sent in 190kHz and the M-Audio Delta 1010LT only support up to 96kHz? This is what mplayer says: l

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound over S/PDIF with M Audio Delta 1010LT

2010-01-11 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
2010/1/9 Nils Erik Svangård : [snip] > I have some lingering questions: >  -Can I somehow fix so I dont have to use Envy24control to change > these settings? Can I do it dynamiclly on the fly? Perhaps the iecset command could help? It has boolean options for audio mode and professional mode. But I

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound over S/PDIF with M Audio Delta 1010LT

2010-01-08 Thread Nils Erik Svangård
Solved it!!! :D After a couple of hours of trying different combinations of settings I finally found what was wrong! For AC3 or DTS pass through in Envy24Control must be set: -Hardware Settings:Professional:Data-Mode = Non-audio -Patchbay/Router:S/PDIF OUT (L) = S/PDIF OUT (L) -Patchbay/Rout

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound over S/PDIF with M Audio Delta 1010LT

2010-01-07 Thread Nils Erik Svangård
> You can't output more than 2 channels over SPDIF using PCM. To do this you > have to use a compressed audio stream (Dolby Digital, DTS, etc.) > Ah, ok that is good to know! Can the 1010LT card send activity on its diffrent channels as DTS, Dolby Digital or anything else. Eg. can I from Ardour pi

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound over S/PDIF with M Audio Delta 1010LT

2010-01-07 Thread Nils Erik Svangård
> Make sure you have a Dolby or DTS surround file and try to play it with > mplayer > I think I have. I have downloaded some from the net. If I have activity on 5 channels when watching in Envy24Control is the PCM-stream that is sent from the card automaticly compressed into DTS or any other stand

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound over S/PDIF with M Audio Delta 1010LT

2010-01-06 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:35:08 +0100 schreef Nils Erik Svangård : > Hi! > I'm having trouble getting surround sound working with my M Audio > Delta 1010LT over S/PDIF. > > When I run: >> speaker-test -Dplug:surround40 -c4 -l1 -twav > > It seems that all channels have been mixed into my two front s

[Alsa-user] Surround sound over S/PDIF with M Audio Delta 1010LT

2010-01-06 Thread Nils Erik Svangård
Hi! I'm having trouble getting surround sound working with my M Audio Delta 1010LT over S/PDIF. When I run: > speaker-test -Dplug:surround40 -c4 -l1 -twav It seems that all channels have been mixed into my two front speakers, no sound on my two rear speakers. I have tried playing movies via mplay

[Alsa-user] Surround Sound issues

2008-10-29 Thread Jason Gauthier
All, I'm using a Roland UA-1EX (http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=743) and using the optical out. I'm having some very basic surround sound issues, I believe. Doing a simple speaker-test -c 6 I see the following output: speaker-test 1.0.18rc3 Playback

[Alsa-user] Surround Sound (AC3 on PS3 via SPDI/F

2007-06-23 Thread gt bradley
I'm trying to get surround sound working on PS3's (w/ alsa under linux). I'm able to get Stereo through the SPDIF, and my understanding is that I should be able to pass-through AC3 encoded audio to get surround sound. Has any one got this to work, or can some-one assert that it can't be done?

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound problem with CS46xx

2007-06-06 Thread stan
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:56:29 +0300 "Vasilis Manolopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > Well I tried your version of .asoundrc file but this gives me no > surround sound. The aplay -lLv gives among other a > card.pcm.surround51 output. I think that by using slave.pcm > "su

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound problem with CS46xx

2007-06-04 Thread Vasilis Manolopoulos
Thanks for the reply. Well I tried your version of .asoundrc file but this gives me no surround sound. The aplay -lLv gives among other a card.pcm.surround51 output. I think that by using slave.pcm "surround51" we use a strandart implementations of surround sound in the cs46xx file in alsa settin

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound problem with CS46xx

2007-06-04 Thread stan
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:16:55 +0300 Vasilis Manwlopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > > I have a Hercules Fortissimo III soundcard which refers to the cs46xx > chip as far as I know in ALSA modules. I have created a .asoundrc with > the following: > > pcm.!default { >type plug

[Alsa-user] Surround sound problem with CS46xx

2007-06-04 Thread Vasilis Manwlopoulos
Hi there, I have a Hercules Fortissimo III soundcard which refers to the cs46xx chip as far as I know in ALSA modules. I have created a .asoundrc with the following: pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "surround51" slave.channels 6 route_policy duplicate } in order to enable surroun

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound with M-Audio Revolution 5.1

2007-02-15 Thread Josh
Sorin Peste wrote: > Hello, > > I've got an issue with the M-Audio Revolution 5.1 card. Basically, I can > only get it to output 2.0 stereo; the LFE, center, and surround channels > are silent. > > ALSA 1.0.13, OpenSUSE 10.1 stock RPMs. > > I ran alsaconf and configured the card with the ice1724 dr

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound with M-Audio Revolution 5.1

2007-02-15 Thread Ingo Müller
Hi! I didn't see you trying the following command, which, in contrary to the commands below, should work: speaker-test -c -Dsurround51 This plays a 6 channel audio stream on a 6 channel device. The commands below played 2 channel streams on 6 channel devices or 6 channel streams on 2 channel dev

[Alsa-user] Surround sound with M-Audio Revolution 5.1

2007-02-14 Thread Sorin Peste
Hello, I've got an issue with the M-Audio Revolution 5.1 card. Basically, I can only get it to output 2.0 stereo; the LFE, center, and surround channels are silent. ALSA 1.0.13, OpenSUSE 10.1 stock RPMs. I ran alsaconf and configured the card with the ice1724 driver (I previously had an onboard

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 14:18 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> (of course without taking into account the sata pb that's plaguing me > >> ;-) ) > > > > I'm afraid that is a hardware problem and there's no software solution. > > :-( > > The only way to

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (of course without taking into account the sata pb that's plaguing me >> ;-) ) > > I'm afraid that is a hardware problem and there's no software solution. :-( The only way to be sure is to check how this stuff works with Windoze. This is going to take a

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 22:40 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> No you should use: > >> > >> ac3dec -C some_ac3_file.ac3 > > > > No, that will decode the AC3 file on the host in software, what Nathan > > wants to get working is AC3 passthrough, where t

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> No you should use: >> >> ac3dec -C some_ac3_file.ac3 > > No, that will decode the AC3 file on the host in software, what Nathan > wants to get working is AC3 passthrough, where the receiver does the AC3 > decoding. Sorry, I must respecfully disagree. I

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 12:15 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > "Nathan A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does that mean I should do something like this: > > > > speaker-test -Dplug:iec958 -c6 -w SURROUNDTEST_011212.wav > > > > where the wav file is a ac3 encoded file? > > No you should us

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
"Nathan A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does that mean I should do something like this: > > speaker-test -Dplug:iec958 -c6 -w SURROUNDTEST_011212.wav > > where the wav file is a ac3 encoded file? No you should use: ac3dec -C some_ac3_file.ac3 HTH ---

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-14 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Am Samstag 14 Oktober 2006 05:09 schrieb Lee Revell: > I'm not really a home theater expert, but the DVD standard is AC3 which > is also known as DD. DVD standard limits bitrate to 448kbits, though ac3 allows up to 640kbit. > DTS is an older, less common format. Nope, it's actually newer, but an

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 22:52 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 22:39 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > I think that's a DTS/DD file. Try this one: > > > > http://downloads.lightspeed.cx/lynne/bjorn_lynne-secret_world_(surround_version).ac3 > First off > > Nice song -- I might h

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Nathan A. Smith
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 22:39 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 22:16 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > > Playing SURROUNDTEST_011212.wav. > > Audio file file format detected. > > == > > Forced audio codec: hwac3 > >

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 22:16 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > Playing SURROUNDTEST_011212.wav. > Audio file file format detected. > == > Forced audio codec: hwac3 > Cannot find codec for audio format 0x2001. > Read DOCS/HTML/en/c

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Nathan A. Smith
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 22:06 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 21:48 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > > BTW: using files from > > http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/mall/index.asp?programid=2445 > > > > I ran "aplay -v ..." and got the following, > > > > > > aplay -v SURROUNDTEST_DD_640.wav

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 21:48 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > BTW: using files from > http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/mall/index.asp?programid=2445 > > I ran "aplay -v ..." and got the following, > > > aplay -v SURROUNDTEST_DD_640.wav Are you still testing AC3/DTS/etc passthrough? aplay won't play tho

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Nathan A. Smith
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 21:48 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 19:05 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 18:50 -0400, Gordon McLellan wrote: > > > just to chime in ... I have a similar pioneer > > > > > > look on your display, where the little digital / analo

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Nathan A. Smith
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 19:05 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 18:50 -0400, Gordon McLellan wrote: > > just to chime in ... I have a similar pioneer > > > > look on your display, where the little digital / analog display box > > is. when receiving a encoded pcm bitstream, the d

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Nathan A. Smith
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 18:50 -0400, Gordon McLellan wrote: > just to chime in ... I have a similar pioneer > > look on your display, where the little digital / analog display box > is. when receiving a encoded pcm bitstream, the display will show: > > DOLBY > DIGITAL > > or > > DIGITAL > DTS >

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Gordon McLellan
just to chime in ... I have a similar pioneer look on your display, where the little digital / analog display box is. when receiving a encoded pcm bitstream, the display will show: DOLBY DIGITAL or DIGITAL DTS depending on the encoding used... when a normal non-encoded pcm is received the ind

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Nathan A. Smith
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 17:57 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 17:39 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > > > Does the receiver indicate an AC3 signal rather than standard PCM? > > No, nothing visibile on my receiver. > > Do you mean the receiver has no way to display whether it's receiv

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 17:39 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > > Does the receiver indicate an AC3 signal rather than standard PCM? > No, nothing visibile on my receiver. Do you mean the receiver has no way to display whether it's receiving PCM or AC3, or that the indicator is not active? Lee ---

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Nathan A. Smith
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 17:05 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:52 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:36 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:34 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:56 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > >

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:52 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:36 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:34 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:56 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 04:10 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote:

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Nathan A. Smith
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:36 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:34 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:56 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 04:10 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, I still am unable to get surround sound to

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:34 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:56 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 04:10 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > > > Unfortunately, I still am unable to get surround sound to work. The > > > way we were testing this is > > > with "sp

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Nathan A. Smith
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:56 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 04:10 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > > Unfortunately, I still am unable to get surround sound to work. The > > way we were testing this is > > with "speaker-test -Dplug:iec958 -c6" (note: iec958 and spdif are the > > s

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 04:10 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > Unfortunately, I still am unable to get surround sound to work. The > way we were testing this is > with "speaker-test -Dplug:iec958 -c6" (note: iec958 and spdif are the > same for this motherboard). > I am getting sound from my left an

[Alsa-user] Surround sound via optical spdif out

2006-10-13 Thread Nathan A. Smith
Hi, I am running a mythtv box based on Mandriva 2007 on a AMD 3200xp (Dual core) on an AM2 chipset. I am attempting to get surround sound audio out to my stereo via an optical s/pidf cable. With some help from kirberich && crimsum I adjusted the model= line in my modprobe.conf and applied t

[Alsa-user] surround sound issue with cmipci

2006-07-22 Thread Alexander Roalter
I have a Terratec Aureon 5.1 card, which works fine with an OpenSuse 10 installation, but here's the catch: playing 6 channel surround sound over mplayer, I get three different behaviors depending on what output device I use: hw:0,0 played at 1/3 speed only on the rear speakers hw:0,1

[Alsa-user] Surround Sound - Part 2

2004-01-06 Thread Dave Hope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all (again), I was playing round with amixer yesterday and managed to get sound coming out of my front and rear speakers, how happy I was until I lost the settings.. Anyway, After running alsamixer again and fiddling around, I couldn't stumble

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2003-12-30 Thread raptor
do u play a real 6 channel sound, if not u will never hear... A way to test is to play a movie with mplayer in the following way : mplayer -ao alsa9 -channels 6 movie.avi Or this : http://dtab.hit.bg/tester.mp3 mplayer -ao alsa9 -channels 6 -af=channels=6:6:0:0:0:2:0:4:1:1:1:3:1:5 -loop 0 tes

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2003-12-30 Thread Dave Hope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 December 2003 8:08 am, raptor wrote: > to all, > as it seems this is "strongly hidden feature" :")... > If u have an "M" on a control in alsamixer, just use "<", ">" instead of > the arrows to mute/unmute it.. (it took me several days to

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2003-12-30 Thread raptor
to all, as it seems this is "strongly hidden feature" :")... If u have an "M" on a control in alsamixer, just use "<", ">" instead of the arrows to mute/unmute it.. (it took me several days to get this) As it seems "M"-key does the same thing.. |On 2003-12-28 10:01:28 + Dave Hope <[EMAIL PR

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2003-12-28 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2003-12-28 10:01:28 + Dave Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 8:49 pm, Jason Clouse wrote: On 2003-12-27 16:58:41 + Dave Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello List, Having got a lovely surround system for christmas I was slightly dissapointed to discover that

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2003-12-28 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2003-12-27 16:58:41 + Dave Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having got a lovely surround system for christmas I was slightly dissapointed to discover that sound would not come out my two rear speakers, but would out my front 3 and sub. I realise the information is extremely vague, but i

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2003-12-28 Thread Dave Hope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 December 2003 8:49 pm, Jason Clouse wrote: > On 2003-12-27 16:58:41 + Dave Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Hello List, > > Having got a lovely surround system for christmas I was slightly > > dissapointed > > to discover that

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2003-12-27 Thread Jason Clouse
On 2003-12-27 16:58:41 + Dave Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello List, Having got a lovely surround system for christmas I was slightly dissapointed to discover that sound would not come out my two rear speakers, but would out my front 3 and sub. I realise the information is extremely vag

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2003-12-27 Thread Dave Hope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 December 2003 7:05 pm, Jason Clouse wrote: > On 2003-12-27 16:58:41 + Dave Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Having got a lovely surround system for christmas I was slightly > > dissapointed > > to discover that sound would not

[Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2003-12-27 Thread Dave Hope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello List, Having got a lovely surround system for christmas I was slightly dissapointed to discover that sound would not come out my two rear speakers, but would out my front 3 and sub. I realise the information is extremely vague, but is this a k

Re: [Alsa-user] Surround sound?

2002-09-30 Thread gabor
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 23:04, Daniel Belcher wrote: > I am sure this question has been asked before, and I have been all over > the alsa mixer, tried various compiles of the alsa drivers with > different configuration settings, cleaned up and redone my modules.conf > more times than I can count

[Alsa-user] Surround sound?

2002-09-30 Thread Daniel Belcher
I am sure this question has been asked before, and I have been all over the alsa mixer, tried various compiles of the alsa drivers with different configuration settings, cleaned up and redone my modules.conf more times than I can count and still can't get rear sound out of my sblive 5.1...

[Alsa-user] Surround Sound

2002-04-02 Thread Johannes Weißl
Hello, I have the Creative Live 1024 Player and FourPointSurround 1600. I'm using the latest Alsa Driver (0.9x), and everything works fine, but I hear no surround sound ! I downloaded the xmms-alsa-plugin, and activated the surround option, but with no success ... Are there any test-files, or ca

[Alsa-user] Surround sound

2002-01-04 Thread David Pettersson
Hi, I've spent most of today (and night ;-) looking for information regarding surround sound support for the SB Live! card using Alsa, however, I have not found any answers. My (quite simple) question is: - Is surround sound supported in Alsa, and if so, how do I enable/use it? Currently, it