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