Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Surround via SPDIF with ALSA/emu10k1? | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:48:22 -0400 |
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On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 20:18 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > I have now been told that SPDIF cannot support more than 2 channels > except with AC3 compression. Given the fact that we can send 580MBit/s > over USB2.0 I would not have even remotely considered this to be the > problem and find it an incredible shame that audio industry is using > such a crippled standard. > > I have now solved my problem by buying and connecting an analog 5.1 > speaker set. Unfortunately I get audible distortions when I turn both > the "PCM" and "Wave" mixers to the maximum setting. I wonder if anyone > can provide more insight what these controls really do and whether it's > better to turn down "PCM", "Wave" or both.
Off topic for LKML, this should only have been posted to the ALSA list.
Lee
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