Re: Surround sound via optical spdif out

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On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:36 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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.
Damn,

No love at all....  Sound from Left and right speakers, but nothing
else.  How do I troubleshoot this?

Nasa

> 
> Lee
> 


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