On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Hendrik Friedel <hen_mail@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get the AC3 output coming from a digital Video Card converted > to a plain old analog stereo signal. > For this, I connected the SPDIF out of the video Card to the SPDIF in of the > soundcard (cmipci, CMI8738MC6). For stereo/pcm signals, this works. I get > the digital signal converted to an analog signal at the speaker output of my > soundcard. > But if the TV-Station sends AC3 signals, apperently this is not downmixed to > stereo by the soundcard. Moreover, it sounds like a helicopter. > How do I have to configure the soundcard to convert the AC3 to stereo? You can't, unless the card does hardware AC3 decoding (very rare) or you use a userspace app to decode and output the sound. Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
