Pavel: 1) I'm using a Juli@ card with the apparently non functional driver. I get similar results with the VT1708 however. At 44.1 and 48 I can get good output at 24 bit audio with the plughw:0,1. At higher bit rates no sound comes out. At 96 KHz I get broadband noise. 2) The Plug plugin would be configured thus I think: pcm.!default { type plug slave { pcm "hw:0,1" } } ctl.mixer0 { type hw card 0 } But I get this: linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ aplay -vv /home/public/data/audio/gimell-test-flac-24-96000.wav Playing WAVE '/home/public/data/audio/gimell-test-flac-24-96000.wav' : Signed 24 bit Little Endian in 3bytes, Rate 96000 Hz, Stereo Plug PCM: Linear conversion PCM (S32_LE) And no recognizable sound on either the Juli@ or the Via CX700 at higher bit depth than 16. And I'm getting underruns on a 44.1/16 wav file on the Via platform. Possibly both drivers are giving incorrect parameters for SPDIF data streams? (32 bit when it should be 24 bit for SPDIF?) For what its worth I found this detail on the SPDIF format: http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html which is simpler and more condensed than the Crystal documentation. In a day I should have some time to look at what is actually coming out of the card after decoding by a crystal receiver. This is Alsa 1.0.14 as included with Ubuntu 710 -Demian -----Original Message----- From: Pavel Hofman [mailto:pavel.hofman@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:48 PM To: Demian Martin Cc: alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Via VT82xx VT1708 ICE1724HT and higher Demian Martin wrote: > I tried your suggestion to use plughw:0,1 and the verbose output looks > fine, the data rate shifts fine (I'm watching the L/R clock on the input to > the DAC on an external DAC) but no audible sound comes out the converter > unless it's a 16 bit 44.1 file. The 24 bit stuff is not getting converted > into something useful to the DAC. Should I check to see if the data clock is > 48X the LR clock? > > What info do you need from me to look deeper? Which card are you using? Juli driver in alsa is not really functional. E.g. Prodigy 192 (standard clock arrangement) has no problem with 24bit SPDIF-OUT. > > I looked at the Plug plugin but have not been able to figure out how to > configure it for my needs. There is way too much marginal information on the > web and little that directs me to an optimum setting. > -Demian > I do not think the plug plugin needs any configuration. It compares input stream parameters with the card capabilities supplied by the driver and does appropriate conversions. Pavel. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.0/1296 - Release Date: 2/24/2008 12:19 PM _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel