John Dey wrote: > 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? No; SPDIF has been designed to transport two channels. The only way to get the data of more channels through SPDIF is to compress it with some algorithm like AC-3/DD/DTS. > With the plugin would I see 6 outputs? Yes. HTH Clemens _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel