Re: [Alsa-user] dmix oddities

2009-06-18 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Grant wrote: > > Are you sure the hardware actually supports S24_3LE? Most 24 bit > > soundcards require 24 bit audio to be packed into 32 bit words. See > > if you can output S24_3LE directly to the hw device. > > I don't think a USB DAC could do 24-in-32 because of the USB 24-bit > limitation

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix oddities

2009-06-17 Thread Grant
>> When I play 16/44.1 flac files via mpd, the CPU stays around 95%. >> When I play the same files via mplayer, the CPU stays around 2% and I >> see: >> >> AO: [alsa] 96000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per channel) >> >> This is confusing for 2 reasons: >> >> 1. Doesn't the above indicate that the source f

Re: [Alsa-user] dmix oddities

2009-06-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Grant wrote: > When I play 16/44.1 flac files via mpd, the CPU stays around 95%. > When I play the same files via mplayer, the CPU stays around 2% and I > see: > > AO: [alsa] 96000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per channel) > > This is confusing for 2 reasons: > > 1. Doesn't