LPCM != PCM. I can't find the bandwidth for HDMI sound, but I can't imagine it's big enough to carry multichannel uncompressed audio at a descent rate and precision.
References would be nice, I'm working mainly off Wikipedia and various links found with Google. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197957 Title: Include a libasound2-plugins-extra package for a52, maemo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/197957/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs