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
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
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
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
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
"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
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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
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
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
> >
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
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
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
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
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
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
>
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
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
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
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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:
> >
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:
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
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
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
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
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