Re: [Alsa-user] found bug, fixed bug, cannot tell anyone

2008-08-15 Thread Rene Herman
On 14-08-08 22:36, Wesley Johnson wrote: > How do you notify ALSA dev team about a bug that has been in 1.0.16 > and 1.0.17. ??? Here will do, although the alsa-devel mailing list would've been better still. Added to CC. > Bugtracker will not let me login, nor email an account confirmation. >

Re: [Alsa-user] found bug, fixed bug, cannot tell anyone

2008-08-15 Thread Rene Herman
On 15-08-08 09:19, Rene Herman wrote: > On 14-08-08 22:36, Wesley Johnson wrote: > >> How do you notify ALSA dev team about a bug that has been in 1.0.16 >> and 1.0.17. ??? > > Here will do, although the alsa-devel mailing list would've been better > still. Ad

Re: [Alsa-user] BugTracker, Rene

2008-08-16 Thread Rene Herman
On 17-08-08 01:03, Wesley Johnson wrote: > I did not see any typo in my email address, and your email did get > here, using the same address. Yes, because I clicked on the link and completed the captcha I was then presented with. I'll probably get another one of those for this message but will

Re: [Alsa-user] patching kernel source tree for ALSA

2008-08-17 Thread Rene Herman
On 17-08-08 04:27, Phil Howard wrote: > I'm building a monolithic Linux kernel, which means no modules. I'd > like to find out how I can upgrade ALSA in a kernel source tree so I > can build a complete kernel image with the latest version of ALSA > (1.0.17) on the latest Linux kernel (2.6.26.2) th

Re: [Alsa-user] Kernel wipes ALSA modules

2008-08-19 Thread Rene Herman
On 19-08-08 03:32, Wesley Johnson wrote: > I know, ALSA in the kernel in Linux 2.6 ! Havn't you noticed how > many companies are keeping old "obsolete" versions of equipment > running. Definitely. And, like you and as said, they are for the most part on their own for support as far as the gener

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 21-08-08 16:15, Grant wrote: > I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to > add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is > 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. Note, I h

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 15:07, James Shatto wrote: > Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But > for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs > are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is > minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundca

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 17:37, Grant wrote: >>> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to >>> add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is >>> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? >> For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. >>

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 20:58, Grant wrote: >>> Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But >>> for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs >>> are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is >>> minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundca

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 23:09, Grant wrote: > Can you just mount the DVD and cp the tracks over? Probably not or > you would have done that. Not as individual tracks no. It's a regular DVD-Video, so you can copy over the VOBs ofcourse, but piecing things together requires processing them from harddisk the

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 23:44, James Shatto wrote: >> Those are the two I have here. mplayer was giving me endless grief >> actually ripping the tracks from the DVD so I haven't yet done that in >> fact, but: > > mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob I'd have figured that out :-) Didn'

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 23:44, Grant wrote: >>> http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ >> Interesting. Thanks. > > Check this out: > > http://dvd-a.info/Index.asp?stitle=neil+young > > 2 pages of mainly Neil Young DVD-A releases all containing tracks up > to 24bit/176khz. Lots of people are ripping their DVD-

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 23-08-08 00:00, James Shatto wrote: >>> mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob >> I'd have figured that out :-) Didn't work with the 96/24 audio... > > Well, you could probably do the arecord method. > > arecord -D copy -t wav -c 2 -f S24_BE -r 96000 audio_track.wav > (unv

[Alsa-user] Poor man's network transparency.

2012-12-17 Thread Rene Herman
Good day. I am setting up basic, "manual" network-transparency on my local network using alsa. Getting sound data from "server" to "player" is easily accomplished with the "file" plugin and netcat: [rene@server ~]$ cat .asoundrc pcm.player { type file slave.pcm "null"

Re: [Alsa-user] Poor man's network transparency.

2012-12-18 Thread Rene Herman
On 18-12-12 14:13, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Rene Herman wrote: >> I am setting up basic, "manual" network-transparency on my local network >> using alsa. Getting sound data from "server" to "player" is easily >> accomplished with the "file&

Re: [Alsa-user] midi problem with cmi8330

2007-03-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 03/28/2007 10:26 AM, Denis Prost wrote: > I'm trying to have midi working on my old computer. The chipset is a > cmi8330 (isa pnp card). I can play wav or mp3 files, but not midi > ones. When I try to play a midi file through GNU solfege, it > complains that /dev/sequencer does not exist. I goo

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Newbie - Getting Ensoniq SoundscapeVivo to work?

2007-04-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 04/28/2007 07:06 AM, Cody Jung wrote: > As it suggests in the subject, I'm both a Linux-newbie and an > ALSA-newbie. I have an old clunker of a machine running Ubuntu Feisty > that I built out of parts left on curbs during spring cleanup, and that's > how I came across my sound card. It's an En

Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA Newbie - Getting Ensoniq SoundscapeVivo to work?

2007-04-28 Thread Rene Herman
ll help to some degree but I'm not sure to which. The patch was generated against 2.6.21 and should apply without trouble to most recent kernels. Loading works just as "modprobe snd-vivo", no params. Rene. commit d67e8af62cf79955fd0c4cb2e54d80be9c19629f Author: Rene Herma

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] ALSA Newbie - Getting Ensoniq SoundscapeVivo to work?

2007-04-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 04/28/2007 01:52 PM, Hannu Savolainen wrote: > Wrong. VIVO and VIVO90 are different models but I can't remember exactly > what was the difference (maybe VIVO90 was PnP and VIVO just plain ISA). Okay, thank you for the information. The one I have here has a large sticker on it saying "Soundsc

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] ALSA Newbie - Getting Ensoniq SoundscapeVivo to work?

2007-04-29 Thread Rene Herman
On 04/29/2007 04:18 AM, Cody Jung wrote: > Er...that appears to be a .diff file. Do I have to do something with it > for it to be workable, or...? Yes. You'd have to apply the patch (as it's called) to a recent kernel source tree, reconfigure the kernel adding this new VIVO driver to your config

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] ALSA Newbie - Getting Ensoniq SoundscapeVivo to work?

2007-04-29 Thread Rene Herman
On 04/29/2007 09:31 AM, Rene Herman wrote: I've attached (to try and avoid linewrap) the lines that you will need in /etc/modprobe.conf. No I haven't. Rene. alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4231 alias sound-slot-0snd-cs4231 options snd-cs4231 in

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] ALSA Newbie - Getting Ensoniq SoundscapeVivo to work? [Solved]

2007-04-29 Thread Rene Herman
On 04/29/2007 11:18 PM, Cody Jung wrote: > Instead I added the following 4 lines to a file and included it in my > init scripts. > > echo activate > /sys/bus/pnp/devices/01\:01.00/resources > sleep 1 > modprobe snd > modprobe snd-cs4231 port=0x534 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0 Sure, that'll do as well. Bi

Re: [Alsa-user] alsa diagnostic

2007-06-20 Thread Rene Herman
On 06/21/2007 01:35 AM, Blue I wrote: > The card in use is using snd_emu10k1, and I asked the user to perform this > command: > #aplay -D hw:0,0 the_user_soundfile.mp3 > the user tells me that the sound is not playing well While that doesn't surprise me... > : the first two seconds of the file a

Re: [Alsa-user] Driver for the SoundMAX ADI1988 chipset

2007-06-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 06/26/2007 11:44 PM, Chris Rajula wrote: > I just recently bought a new motherboard, and it has a sound card which > I've never heard of before, made by Analogue Devices. The chipset is > ADI1988, and I can see that there exists drivers for the 1888 chipset and > such, but not for the 1988. >

Re: [Alsa-user] Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 06/28/2007 02:42 PM, Anton Petrusevich wrote: Please always use Reply-to-All on this list -- subscribers here like to also get personal copies. > I have ICE1724, a very good sound card to my taste, works like a charm. > But with ALSA I had a really hard time to configure it properly, wanna >

Re: [Alsa-user] Bose Companion 5 - any experiences?

2007-07-29 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/28/2007 07:18 PM, Uli wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with the bose companion 5? Is it known to > work with the usb-audio driver? Is the sound really 5.1? > > I saw that OSS has some bose specific support in oss/cs4232.c. Didn't see > anything in the alsa sources though...might th

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-07-31 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/31/2007 05:44 AM, Troy Heidner wrote: > I'm new to the list here, and I'm fairly new to linux as well. I have > an older Gateway Solo 5150 laptop computer that I'm trying to run Fedora > Core 6 on. It's a PII-400 with 288MB of RAM. I have gotten nearly > EVERYTHING working splendidly w

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 02:57 AM, Troy Heidner wrote: Thanks for the help! Sure, but please always keep existing CCs intact on these kinds of messages. Otherwise the next poor sod that googles for the same problem hits on these first few messages of a conversation, but not the solution since that was

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 04:07 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: > From the various threads I've found on this, it appears that the driver > broke sometime fairly recently, and that it may indeed work with older > kernels. Perhaps the fault is with the acpi system changes in recent > kernels. The fact that the driv

[Alsa-user] [PATCH] add the ESS1879 pnpbios ID to the es18xx driver

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/sound/isa/es18xx.c b/sound/isa/es18xx.c index f7732bf..69b1c8a 100644 --- a/sound/isa/es18xx.c +++ b/sound/isa/es18xx.c @@ -2042,6 +2042,7 @@ static int pnpc_registered; static struct pnp_device_id snd_audiodrive_pnpbiosids[] =

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 08:52 PM, Troy Heidner wrote: > Holy crap, I've got sound! :) Good to hear. I'll submit the little patch for inclusion and (hopefully, it didn't really get tested, but oh well) future drivers should work a little better directly (that is, without you needing to specify the port/i

Re: [Alsa-user] Registration on ALSA Wiki

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 11:43 PM, Wallace, Brooke wrote: > Has anyone else tried to register on the wiki and gotten this error > message? > > User name must be WikiName formatted! No, but the message seems clear? Try as BrookeWallace? Or Brooke.Wallace, or -- aka a WikiName. Rene.

Re: [Alsa-user] es18xx soundcard troubles

2007-08-02 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/02/2007 03:03 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: > HAH! Success! Congrats :-) > Here's the magic incantations on a Compaq Armada 1700, ess1869 chipset, > and 2.6.21 kernel: > > boot with noapic acpi=off pci=biosirq I doubt the "noapic" makes a difference? > acpi *must* be enabled in the bios, and

Re: [Alsa-user] Recording a playback stream

2007-08-12 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/13/2007 02:30 AM, Jonathan Leonard wrote: > Sorry about that, Bill. Maybe you are in text only mode. Not only he, the list is. Many thanks for the useful response, but if you could avoid HTML (and top-posting) that would be great. Rene. --

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to use my SB16 with Alsa

2007-08-15 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/16/2007 01:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I read somewhere that for ALSA to find the card, I have to tell ALSA > explicitly which parameters this card use, so I tried two variants adding > the sound card parameters, none worked. Please see below asterisks line > for details. snd-sb16 do

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to use my SB16 with Alsa

2007-08-16 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/17/2007 12:30 AM, GGLL wrote: Do not drop CCs. Use "Reply to all". > Yes, I have those uncommon settings, I already have a fax-modem at COM3 > with that irq=5. Okay. > A new question I have: is there a file where the messages (action and > answers) at boot as seen on the screen are stor

Re: [Alsa-user] Trying to use my SB16 with Alsa

2007-08-16 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/17/2007 04:49 AM, GGLL wrote: > I forgot to mention. Yes; I've done that at bios setup screen. Not for > DMA's but for IRQ's 5 and 10. DMA settings at bios setup are not so clear > for me so I leave them untouched. If you have a standard AMI/Award BIOS, setting either of these resources to

Re: [Alsa-user] mp3 trouble - help from here?

2007-08-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/27/2007 07:39 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag, 27. August 2007, FrankK wrote: >> Surely list members don't all have to build LAME to use mp3! > > no, some download 3rd party rpms. > > Just use google. mp3+suse > > And since you don't like being without mp3 - complain to your

Re: [Alsa-user] mp3 trouble - help from here?

2007-08-29 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/29/2007 06:52 AM, Frank K wrote: > Thanks to both of you for your responses. Following Volker's advice I > downloaded lame-3.97-1.suse10.2.i586.rpm from Kradio. It's installed > now, but Xine and Banshee are still looking for an mp3 decoder. The man > page for lame shows it to be a conver

Re: [Alsa-user] Fixed device number attribution

2007-09-06 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/06/2007 09:58 AM, Giacomo Quinti wrote: > as you can see my problem is similar but different from the post > "Dynamically designating default device". > > I have 2 soundcards in my linux box (internal + usb audio UA-1EX) + 1 > midi USB device, i need to use all these cards. > > The probl

Re: [Alsa-user] Disable MIDI port creation with ICE1724

2007-09-08 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/08/2007 03:32 AM, James Roberts wrote: I need to disable the creation of the ICEnsemble ICE1724 midi device on my system. I am using a off-brand card (see below) and accessing the midi device crashes the system hard. I have explored udev rules, kernel opts, etc ad nauseum to do this.

Re: [Alsa-user] Diamond50 7.1 audio card at Staples

2007-09-12 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/12/2007 02:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > I believe the model of the card was DX71. > > Its a quite affordable 7.1 channel 24bit/96db snr pci card. This one: http://www.diamondmm.com/XS71.php ? > Does x86-32 bit alsa support this card? If so, it seems it's a CMI8768 which seems supported b

Re: [Alsa-user] Diamond50 7.1 audio card at Staples

2007-09-12 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/12/2007 03:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> If so, it seems it's a CMI8768 which seems supported by snd-cmipci yes. >> The CMI chips are okay-ish sounding -- nothing stellar though (ice1724 >> cards are nice in that respect). >> >> Grepping though the driver shows it doesn't support PCM volume

Re: [Alsa-user] Diamond50 7.1 audio card at Staples

2007-09-12 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/12/2007 05:39 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Rene Herman wrote: >> Latency-wise, I expect softvol is a non-starter always but if this is not a >> concern, I don't know. > > Nothing needs to be scheduled separately; there shouldn't be any noticeable > l

Re: [Alsa-user] 5.1 surround sound with Hercules Fortissimo II

2007-09-12 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/12/2007 07:10 PM, Lee Revell wrote: > On 9/12/07, Tomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am thinking of buying a 5.1 surround sound speakers. >> >> I like to watch DIVX/XVID movies with KAFFEINE and they are all AC3 >> encoded. So will the surround sound work properly with Ubuntu Feisty >> and

Re: [Alsa-user] Diamond50 7.1 audio card at Staples

2007-09-12 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/13/2007 04:53 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Rene Herman wrote: >>> As to the capture direction; well, capture isn't widely used. You don't >>> need 192 kHz for recording, say, a VoIP conversation. > > Nope, but ripping your cd collection might need it.

Re: [Alsa-user] Diamond50 7.1 audio card at Staples

2007-09-13 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/13/2007 09:27 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Rene Herman wrote: >> On 09/12/2007 05:39 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: >>> Rene Herman wrote: >>>> Latency-wise, I expect softvol is a non-starter always but if this is not a >>>> concern, I don't kno

Re: [Alsa-user] Basic sound card that supports hardware mixing?

2007-09-14 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/14/2007 11:52 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > James Pearson wrote: >> Do you happen known what card make/modules use the CS46xx or YMF7x4 >> chips? > > CS46xx: > BlackGold II 5.1 > Hercules Game Theater > Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo III > Terratec DMX XFire 1024 "TerraTec SixPack 5.1+"

Re: [Alsa-user] about ad1816 sound blaster...... isa slot

2007-09-18 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/18/2007 08:29 PM, Raphael Burquet wrote: > I have install vector linux soho 5.0 > but alsa not detect my sound card > what can I do AD1816(A) is an ISA Plug & Play chip so really should be fairly troublefree. I have no idea about "vector linux soho 5.0", but if you type (as roo

Re: [Alsa-user] After a few minutes/hours/days sound goes ChaChaChaCha......

2007-10-07 Thread Rene Herman
On 10/06/2007 07:43 PM, Morten Guldager wrote: > On my kubuntu system the soundcard, soon or later, refuses to play > anything but the first approx. 0.1 second of the sample repeated over and > over again. That sounds like the IRQ stops firing. > To fix this situation its not enough simply to l

Re: [Alsa-user] How to get set/fixed sample rate of ALSA device?

2007-10-07 Thread Rene Herman
On 10/06/2007 11:56 PM, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > I have onboard sound card of ATI fame: > :00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01) > Uses snd-intel-hda module. > > So, this sound card seems to be fixed to 48000Hz for recording. I > know, that using plughw will he

Re: [Alsa-user] How to get set/fixed sample rate of ALSA device?

2007-10-07 Thread Rene Herman
On 10/07/2007 07:04 PM, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: "Current sample rate" only has meaning with the device open , and if I understand you right, a "cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0{p,c}/sub0/hw_params will then get you what you want as to the "get" part (substitute for 0 in the above as required). I

Re: [Alsa-user] How to get set/fixed sample rate of ALSA device?

2007-10-07 Thread Rene Herman
On 10/08/2007 12:07 AM, Rene Herman wrote: > On 10/07/2007 07:04 PM, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: >> So you suggest to open device via any means and then read that file? I >> did this and it works. I guess I can even try to implement it in app >> and check for sample rate ev

Re: [Alsa-user] After a few minutes/hours/days sound goes ChaChaChaCha......

2007-10-07 Thread Rene Herman
On 10/07/2007 08:15 PM, Morten Guldager wrote: > I have noticed that when the sound is broken, the interrupts does not > count any longer too. Okay, the IRQ stops firing. Given that you had the same behaviour with two cards, I'll wait for the routeirq/noacpi thing results before attempting to c

Re: [Alsa-user] How to get set/fixed sample rate of ALSA device?

2007-10-07 Thread Rene Herman
On 10/08/2007 12:41 AM, Mark Constable wrote: Any chance that your program could take an arg to investigate other cards (or perhaps plugins) and also return an errno so it could be used in scripts ? Only if you promise to never drop CCs again (although I don't know about plugins). # gcc -

Re: [Alsa-user] How to get set/fixed sample rate of ALSA device?

2007-10-08 Thread Rene Herman
On 10/08/2007 09:14 PM, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > >>> Introducing a /proc/asound/card0/pcm0{p,c}/hw_limits or similar might >>> not be a bad idea though? >> >> That would be good idea, with completion with 'alsainfo' about device. >> >> How to do that p

Re: [Alsa-user] How to get set/fixed sample rate of ALSA device?

2007-10-08 Thread Rene Herman
On 10/08/2007 09:30 PM, Rene Herman wrote: On 10/08/2007 09:14 PM, Bill Unruh wrote: Introducing a /proc/asound/card0/pcm0{p,c}/hw_limits or similar might not be a bad idea though? [ ... ] It could also be done in userspace by opening the stream and quering the format_mask, channels and

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] How to get set/fixed sample rate of ALSA device?

2007-10-15 Thread Rene Herman
On 10/09/2007 02:23 AM, Rene Herman wrote: > Not too sure about that subformat thing by the way. Jaroslav (or anyone, > obviously): is the subformat intended/designed to be format-specific or > snd_pcm_t global? > > Currently there is only ever one subformat (STD) anyway but ge

Re: [Alsa-user] email address change for user [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-10-24 Thread Rene Herman
On 10/24/2007 12:01 AM, Brian Hagen wrote: > I am changing ISP's and have a new address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please > adjust records accordingly. You will need to do so yourself, I'm afraid. When you login to your subscription info page at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/alsa-user t

Re: [Alsa-user] Send a *.wav into a input device

2007-11-04 Thread Rene Herman
On 05-11-07 02:16, Carlos Hernandez wrote: > I'm sorry. I will try to say it again... > > sure you know Mp4live, the live encoder and broadcaster from the MPEG4IP > project. Mp4live only can read audio from OSS or ALSA devices... I got > one "file.wav" pcm 16 bits, 44100 hz stereo, I want to

[Alsa-user] Dumping 96000, S24_BE using "file" plugin

2007-11-10 Thread Rene Herman
Good day. I'm trying to use the "file" plugin to dump stereo 96 kHz, S24_BE LPCM from DVD to a file: $ mplayer -ao alsa:device=file=track01 -vo null dvd://1 -chapter 1-1 which isn't working: | == | Opening audio decoder: [

Re: [Alsa-user] Dumping 96000, S24_BE using "file" plugin

2007-11-10 Thread Rene Herman
On 11-11-07 01:40, Oliver Lupton wrote: > Rene Herman wrote: >> I'm trying to use the "file" plugin to dump stereo 96 kHz, S24_BE LPCM from >> DVD to a file: >> >> $ mplayer -ao alsa:device=file=track01 -vo null dvd:

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 21-11-07 20:33, Paolo Saggese wrote: > Thus, I would need a sound card which must be: > > * cabable of "bitperfect" (pass through) operation at CD standard > 16bit/44.1KHz (as well as, possibly, also at higher resolutions and > sample rates such as 16/48, 24/48, 24/96 and 24/192). 16/44.1 is

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 11:39, Rene Herman wrote: > On 21-11-07 20:33, Paolo Saggese wrote: > >> Thus, I would need a sound card which must be: >> >> * cabable of "bitperfect" (pass through) operation at CD standard >> 16bit/44.1KHz (as well as, possibly, also at high

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 11:10, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Paolo Saggese wrote: >> Of course I plan to use the PC only to provide a "bitperfect" >> (exact copy of the original media, normally CD) digital stream >> to an external DAC. >> >> As you probably know better than me, the one major known problem >> wh

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 15:25, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Rene Herman wrote: >> On 21-11-07 20:33, Paolo Saggese wrote: >>> Thus, I would need a sound card which must be: >>> >>> * cabable of "bitperfect" (pass through) operation at CD standard >>&

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 20:49, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Just a random thought on jitter - if you like music recorded originally > before the digital era - don't bother. > > I.e. analog tape recorder wow and flutter > > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_and_flutter ) > > is much higher than digital jitter

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 20:38, Paolo Saggese wrote: > On Thursday 22 November 2007 11:39, Rene Herman wrote: > >> I suppose your external DAC has no actual WordClock (BNC connection) output? > > indeed, it does not. As it does not have an SPDIF output, either... > > but I'm

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 19:44, Paolo Saggese wrote: > [OT on] > In fact, unfortunately cdparanoia is not (or perhaps no > longer) good enough to do "perfect" DAE. Over the course of ripping 735 CDs now to my harddrive with cdparanoia, I have found that all's well as long as cdparanoia leaves nothing but sp

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O with external clock sync ?

2007-11-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-11-07 22:00, Paolo Saggese wrote: > (what's worse is that, nevertheless, even now a good analogue system can > still sound MUCH better than any CD: it actually takes a good SACD or > DVD-A system to come close to the good old LP when it comes to the real > perceived audio quality!) If we're

Re: [Alsa-user] "best" card for "bitperfect" SPDIF I/O?with?external clock sync ?

2007-11-24 Thread Rene Herman
On 24-11-07 11:49, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: > PS a bit of OT: I'm 24, and I barely hear 18khz (in headphones), unless > it's VERY loud - I can hear only up to 17500-17800 clearly at average > volume level. Is there something wrong with my ears or it should be like > this? You're perfectly fine

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-25 Thread Rene Herman
On 25-11-07 04:18, Mark Constable wrote: > There are a few online hearing test sites around, here > is one with 16/44.1 wavs. I can't hear 12kHz-0dB.wav :-( > > http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/dB/loudness.html Word of warning -- the outcome here will significantly vary with the used soundcar

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-25 Thread Rene Herman
On 25-11-07 17:17, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: > On 2007.11.25 at 15:22:59 +0100, Rene Herman wrote next: > >> That 16 kHz -60dB is just about my threshold with good headphones, good card >> set to 0 dB and external amplication cranked up. -57 I hear always, at -60 >>

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-25 Thread Rene Herman
On 25-11-07 22:10, Bill Unruh wrote: [ the loudness war ] > And your senator is supposed to do what? Pass a law saying that clipping is > illegal? Maybe we can pass another that states that distortion is illegal, > and get rid of all those fuzz boxes on electric guitars. > And throw anyone in jai

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 26-11-07 03:35, Bill Unruh wrote: >> [ the loudness war ] >> Clipping nor analogue distortion by the way is the problem. As said, >> it's the range compression to _avoid_ the clipping that they have to >> do when they master at these insane averages -- when you then later >> play them back

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 26-11-07 21:25, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Rene Herman wrote: On 25-11-07 04:18, Mark Constable wrote: There are a few online hearing test sites around, here is one with 16/44.1 wavs. I can't hear 12kHz-0dB.wav :-( http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/dB/loudness.html Word of wa

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 27-11-07 02:26, Rene Herman wrote: Wrote a small sine generator during this test by the way -- attached just in case anyone is interested. Writes S16_LE to stdout, so intended to be used as: $ sine -f -d | aplay -f cd -r for setting a different rate than 44100: $ sine -f -d -r

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 27-11-07 02:41, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:26:48 +0100 > Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] >> Wrote a small sine generator during this test by the way -- attached just in >> case anyone is interested. Writes S16_LE to

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 27-11-07 02:48, Rene Herman wrote: > Yes, well, I was feeling manly... > > But the main utility should, admittedly, mostly be the source. Tiny and > intended to be sort of instructive in the dBFS -> Amplitude step and such. Mmm, and now that I look at it again: ampl

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-27 Thread Rene Herman
//www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html But yes, nice concept. If you indeed look at anything of the sort, keep us updated... Rene. /* * Generate a stereo S16_LE sine at settable rate, frequency and dBFS * * Public Domain 2007, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * gcc -W -Wall -Os -o

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-27 Thread Rene Herman
On 27-11-07 15:55, Rene Herman wrote: > #define FREQ_MIN 20 My headphones (Sennheiser HD-590) advertise 12 Hz and the setup I have hear actually seems to confirm that. Feel free ofcourse to drop this lower bound to 10 Hz or so... R

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-27 Thread Rene Herman
On 27-11-07 16:58, Mark Constable wrote: > Thank you very much, probably took longer than the program itself :) Well, I must say, the amplitude <-> dBFS thing took me some thinking slash googling but yes, otherwise it's tiny. > FWIW... > > http://proaudio.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/sine/ > htt

Re: [Alsa-user] Changing Playback Tempo

2007-11-29 Thread Rene Herman
On 29-11-07 23:56, Antonio Dupont wrote: > I would like to change the playback tempo of some small mp3 files. They > are small voice response files and I would like them to play in a shorter > time. Maybe at 125% speed. > > Is there some command in ALSA that I can use to do this? > > I've searc

Re: [Alsa-user] sound through headphones only

2007-11-29 Thread Rene Herman
On 29-11-07 20:16, Tom Lund wrote: > I have an old Compaq Armada 7400 notebook with an ESS 1879 AudioDrive ISA > sound card. I had sound working correctly with Fedora core 4, but after > a recent fresh install of Fedora core 7 I am left with a situation where > sound can be heard only by plugging

Re: [Alsa-user] sound through headphones only

2007-11-29 Thread Rene Herman
On 30-11-07 01:00, Rene Herman wrote: > driver. These are hardware, motherboard specific, things, only affeting > teh signal patch after it has left the chip ALSA is so busily driving... Eeew, just a few to many typos in one statement. "only affecting the signal path after".

Re: [Alsa-user] about jitter... (digital does NOT mean perfect)

2007-11-30 Thread Rene Herman
On 30-11-07 17:55, Paolo Saggese wrote: > This may seem (and should be) an obvious statement... was it not for > the massive marketing hype trying (and often succeeding) to convince > everyone of the contrary. 8-) > > OK, we ended up quite OT... sorry. Hey, don't apologise, I'm enjoying these m

Re: [Alsa-user] sound through headphones only

2007-11-30 Thread Rene Herman
On 30-11-07 07:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Thank you for your help. When I broke out the manual to learn how to > access the bios and run diagnostics, I discovered that there is a > hardware speaker mute switch on the keyboard that I had not noticed > before. Needless to say that fixed the

Re: [Alsa-user] about jitter... (digital does NOT mean perfect)

2007-11-30 Thread Rene Herman
On 01-12-07 06:12, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:15:55 +0100 > Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 30-11-07 17:55, Paolo Saggese wrote: >> >>> This may seem (and should be) an obvious statement... was it not for >>>

Re: [Alsa-user] File Plugin

2007-12-18 Thread Rene Herman
On 18-12-07 05:32, Carlos Hernandez wrote: > Can someone tell me how to correctly configure the file plugin to read > audio from a file?... This works: pcm.infile { @args [ FILE ] @args.FILE { type string } type file slave {

Re: [Alsa-user] F1: ca0106 loaded but by alsa?

2008-01-07 Thread Rene Herman
On 07-01-08 12:58, Ramkumar R wrote: > I also noticed another thing... my kernel spews out something when I try > to load ca0106 although the module loads finally: > cannot find the slot for index 0 (range 0-0), error: -16 > CA0106: probe of :01:06.0 failed with error -12 The module loaded,

Re: [Alsa-user] el cheapo soundcard search

2008-02-09 Thread Rene Herman
On 10-02-08 00:57, Bill Unruh wrote: > solution. 6-8 outputs is rare in a cheap soundcard. Why does he need them? Rare? A _non_ 5.1 (or 7.1) card is rarer these days... > And why is he specifying 48-24? It may be that that is what he really > needs. It is also possible that he is guessing. Sugg

Re: [Alsa-user] el cheapo soundcard search

2008-02-10 Thread Rene Herman
On 10-02-08 18:39, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-10 02:26:33 +0100, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Suggesting 16-bit and 44.1 kHz is just completely out of date. Heck, _CD_ is >> completely out of date. > > But OTOH, SACD and DVD-Audio didn

Re: [Alsa-user] ESS 1688

2008-02-24 Thread Rene Herman
On 24-02-08 00:20, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > I have an old laptop with an ESS 1688, which is working with > snd_es1688. The following setting was used to load it: > > # modprobe snd_es1688 index=0 port=0x220 mpu_port=0x330 irq=5 dma8=1 mpu_irq=9 > > I have two problems with it: > > 1. The recording

Re: [Alsa-user] ESS 1688

2008-02-24 Thread Rene Herman
On 24-02-08 10:50, Rene Herman wrote: >> 2. I cannot use the card in full duplex mode. Is this card able to do >> full duplex as other SB16 cards? > > No, it's only half-duplex. The driver is, that is. Just reading that the 1688 is in

Re: [Alsa-user] ESS 1688

2008-02-24 Thread Rene Herman
On 24-02-08 12:59, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > Should I open a bug report for this in the BTS? Please don't drop CCs. No that shouldn't be neccesary... Rene - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Micr

Re: [Alsa-user] ESS 1688

2008-02-24 Thread Rene Herman
On 24-02-08 10:50, Rene Herman wrote: Not yet, but I confirm the bug. I'll try and see of I can locate anything. No ETA available. Can you try if applying the attached makes things work as you'd expect with respect to the recording levels? Over here it seems to, although I get th

Re: [Alsa-user] ESS 1688

2008-02-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 25-02-08 00:17, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > This old laptop is running debian stable and has very little free > diskspace, but I think I can use another box with more free diskspace and > get the kernel sources for debian unstable and try your patch against > them. I'm downloading them now, but I wo

Re: [Alsa-user] XDTV

2008-03-07 Thread Rene Herman
On 07-03-08 14:18, Van Petrov wrote: > I found out that XDTV is able to capture sound from the alsa PCM device > (Sb live "in" from AverMedia TV card) only if Sb live has modindex "0" > (default sound device). > But I prefer to use Usb-sound as default device. Is it possible to > force XDTV capt

Re: [Alsa-user] Preferred way to disable dmix

2008-03-08 Thread Rene Herman
On 08-03-08 19:22, Michael Kiermaier wrote: > I have two sound cards in my system. > > The first one is the onboard sound card, I use it for all the system sounds. > > The second one is a ice1712-card, which is for high quality recording and > output to my hi-fi system. > > For the first card,

Re: [Alsa-user] Preferred way to disable dmix

2008-03-08 Thread Rene Herman
On 08-03-08 19:58, Michael Kiermaier wrote: > Thanks for your answer. Sure, but please keep the list in CC so that someone might correct or expand if neccesary... >> To use your second card, you have to specifify the device somewhere. If you >> want just the hardware abilities, just use the "hw

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