Hello, I've just bought a new motherboard with an S/PDIF input bracket and have decided to ditch my ageing Audigy Drive because that's all I was using it for. With the Audigy, I simply had to plug the cable in and adjust the volume with alsamixer. I gather the Audigy does a lot behind the scenes to make this work but I was hoping that it would still somehow be possible with this new board. As I suspected, piping arecord to aplay like so does the trick. arecord -Diec958 -f S16_LE -r 44100 -c 2 | aplay However! This only gives me stereo. The board is capable of 7.1 but if I change "-c 2" to any other number, it gives me this error. Recording WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Channels 6 arecord: set_params:1059: Channels count non available aplay: playback:2372: read error This is very disappointing. I have tried to ensure that the source material is 5.1 but this makes no difference. My TV, which is providing the input, has an option for PCM or Dolby Digital. I guess I want PCM but this doesn't seem to make any difference either. I really don't want to have to fork out for a home cinema system and/or digital speakers. Surely this should work? Cheers, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
