Clemens, Thanks for your response. The 5.1 or 7.1 capability is not as important to me as having 6 or 8 independent jack channels to connect 4 or 8 channels from an application (ambiosonics from aeolus). Without adding the a52 plugin would I see more than 2 outputs in qjackctl? With the plugin would I see 6 outputs? On Oct 30, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:s > John Dey wrote: >> I am looking for a external sound card that has spdif (7.1) >> functioning. > > 7.1 encoding is done in software, not in hardware. > I don't know of any 7.1 encoder for Linux. > > ALSA has the a52 plugin that can do 5.1 encoding for any sound > card that has SPDIF, but you'd have to compile it with the ffmpeg > library to get it to work. > > > HTH > Clemens > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
