Re: Surround sound via optical spdif out

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On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 21:48 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 19:05 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 18:50 -0400, Gordon McLellan wrote:
> > > just to chime in ... I have a similar pioneer
> > > 
> > > look on your display, where the little digital / analog display box
> > > is.  when receiving a encoded pcm bitstream, the display will show:
> > > 
> > > DOLBY
> > > DIGITAL
> > > 
> > > or
> > > 
> > > DIGITAL
> > > DTS
> > > 
> > > depending on the encoding used... when a normal non-encoded pcm is
> > > received the indicator will just read DIGITAL
> > 
> > Thanks Gordon...
> > 
> > I am not getting AC3 info to my receiver...  I have never seen either of
> > those on my display  :{
> > 
> > Nasa
> 
> BTW: using files from
> http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/mall/index.asp?programid=2445
> 
> I ran "aplay -v ..."  and got the following,
> 
> 
> aplay -v SURROUNDTEST_DD_640.wav 
> Playing WAVE 'SURROUNDTEST_DD_640.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian,
> Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
> Plug PCM: Rate conversion PCM (48000, sformat=S16_LE)
> Its setup is:
>   stream       : PLAYBACK
>   access       : RW_INTERLEAVED
>   format       : S16_LE
>   subformat    : STD
>   channels     : 2
>   rate         : 44100
>   exact rate   : 44100 (44100/1)
>   msbits       : 16
>   buffer_size  : 15052
>   period_size  : 940
>   period_time  : 21333
>   tick_time    : 0
>   tstamp_mode  : NONE
>   period_step  : 1
>   sleep_min    : 0
>   avail_min    : 940
>   xfer_align   : 940
>   start_threshold  : 15040
>   stop_threshold   : 15052
>   silence_threshold: 0
>   silence_size : 0
>   boundary     : 986447872
> Slave: Soft volume PCM
> Control: PCM Playback Volume
> min_dB: -51
> resolution: 256
> Its setup is:
>   stream       : PLAYBACK
>   access       : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
>   format       : S16_LE
>   subformat    : STD
>   channels     : 2
>   rate         : 48000
>   exact rate   : 48000 (48000/1)
>   msbits       : 16
>   buffer_size  : 16384
>   period_size  : 1024
>   period_time  : 21333
>   tick_time    : 0
>   tstamp_mode  : NONE
>   period_step  : 1
>   sleep_min    : 0
>   avail_min    : 1024
>   xfer_align   : 1024
>   start_threshold  : 16384
>   stop_threshold   : 16384
>   silence_threshold: 0
>   silence_size : 0
>   boundary     : 1073741824
> Slave: Direct Stream Mixing PCM
> Its setup is:
>   stream       : PLAYBACK
>   access       : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
>   format       : S16_LE
>   subformat    : STD
>   channels     : 2
>   rate         : 48000
>   exact rate   : 48000 (48000/1)
>   msbits       : 16
>   buffer_size  : 16384
>   period_size  : 1024
>   period_time  : 21333
>   tick_time    : 0
>   tstamp_mode  : NONE
>   period_step  : 1
>   sleep_min    : 0
>   avail_min    : 1024
>   xfer_align   : 1024
>   start_threshold  : 16384
>   stop_threshold   : 16384
>   silence_threshold: 0
>   silence_size : 0
>   boundary     : 1073741824
> Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA NVidia' device 0 subdevice 0
> Its setup is:
>   stream       : PLAYBACK
>   access       : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
>   format       : S16_LE
>   subformat    : STD
>   channels     : 2
>   rate         : 48000
>   exact rate   : 48000 (48000/1)
>   msbits       : 16
>   buffer_size  : 16384
>   period_size  : 1024
>   period_time  : 21333
>   tick_time    : 4000
>   tstamp_mode  : NONE
>   period_step  : 1
>   sleep_min    : 0
>   avail_min    : 1024
>   xfer_align   : 1024
>   start_threshold  : 1
>   stop_threshold   : 1073741824
>   silence_threshold: 0
>   silence_size : 1073741824
>   boundary     : 1073741824
> 
> >From looking at this aplay played this files as stereo (2 channel) --
> which doesn't seem right.  Why would it do that?
> 
> It has a slightly different output when I do the following:
> 
> aplay -v -Dplug:iec958 SURROUNDTEST_011212.wav 
> Playing WAVE 'SURROUNDTEST_011212.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian,
> Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
> Plug PCM: Hooks PCM
> Its setup is:
>   stream       : PLAYBACK
>   access       : RW_INTERLEAVED
>   format       : S16_LE
>   subformat    : STD
>   channels     : 2
>   rate         : 44100
>   exact rate   : 44100 (44100/1)
>   msbits       : 16
>   buffer_size  : 16384
>   period_size  : 4096
>   period_time  : 92879
>   tick_time    : 4000
>   tstamp_mode  : NONE
>   period_step  : 1
>   sleep_min    : 0
>   avail_min    : 4096
>   xfer_align   : 4096
>   start_threshold  : 16384
>   stop_threshold   : 16384
>   silence_threshold: 0
>   silence_size : 0
>   boundary     : 1073741824
> Slave: Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA NVidia' device 1 subdevice 0
> Its setup is:
>   stream       : PLAYBACK
>   access       : RW_INTERLEAVED
>   format       : S16_LE
>   subformat    : STD
>   channels     : 2
>   rate         : 44100
>   exact rate   : 44100 (44100/1)
>   msbits       : 16
>   buffer_size  : 16384
>   period_size  : 4096
>   period_time  : 92879
>   tick_time    : 4000
>   tstamp_mode  : NONE
>   period_step  : 1
>   sleep_min    : 0
>   avail_min    : 4096
>   xfer_align   : 4096
>   start_threshold  : 16384
>   stop_threshold   : 16384
>   silence_threshold: 0
>   silence_size : 0
>   boundary     : 107374182
> 
> notice the different rates....
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Nasa
> 
Forgot to note:  each time I played file I just got a lot of 
loud static...

> >  
> > > gordon
> > > 
> > > On 10/13/06, Nathan A. Smith <nasa01@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 17:57 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 17:39 -0400, Nathan A. Smith wrote:
> > > > > > > Does the receiver indicate an AC3 signal rather than standard PCM?
> > > > > > No, nothing visibile on my receiver.
> > > > >
> > > > > Do you mean the receiver has no way to display whether it's receiving
> > > > > PCM or AC3, or that the indicator is not active?
> > > > >
> > > 
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