Takashi Iwai wrote: >> Maybe I am using the wrong "hw", there is also a "hw:0,2" device, which >> I cannot make work properly at all (only one channel is output, large >> chunks are discarded, much much clipping). > The first PCM device is for the multi-output PCM. It's for both > analog and digital. The dedicated SPDIF is the secondary one. I've been experimenting at large yesterday, and I now I finally understand what you mean by this sentence. It appears that if you send output to hw:0,0 which comprises of two-channel data AND the iec958 enable control is set to on, then the hw:0,1 is also opened (returns "busy" on open) and the sound is sent to that device simultaneously. If the amount of channels is other than 2, then this scheme is not followed, and the secondary interface remains available. If the iec958 enable control is set to false, none of the hw:0,0 or hw:0,1 output data to spdif. Is this intended behaviour? I think it is very very confusing. IMHO the alsa lib has enough features to copy sound to both devices, when the user actually wants that. And I don't! hw:0,0 should simply output to analog en hw:0,1 to digital... At least the user should be able to choose the behaviour using the iec958 enable control, being "on" implementing the current "copying" behaviour and otherwise simply exposing two independent devices. Oh and BTW the bug I reported earlier on, with the hw:0,1 (digital) interface giving noise in one channel, appears to be really a bug, with a workaround, so it might be a simple one to resolve; if you output sound to the device and toggle the iec958 control a few times, the noise goes away and the interface works OK. Looks like an initialisation problem to me... This is all with vanilla linux 2.6.19 (alsa 1.0.13).
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