Re: Surround sound via optical spdif out

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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
> > same for this motherboard).
> > I am getting sound from my left and right speakers, but nothing 
> > from anything else.   
> 
> SPDIF only supports 2 channels unless the signal is AC3-encoded.
Thanks for the reply Lee,

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?

Nasa

> 
> Lee
> 


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