On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:34 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > 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? I don't know if speaker-test will play AC3 encoded files. Try xine or mplayer. Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
