On Sun, 10 May 2009, Jon Smirl wrote: > I would like to test my SPDIF driver implementation. How can I used > command line tools to play sample 5.1 music over SPDIF? > > I have a file 5.1 AC3 encoded file -- w.ac3 > > This doesn't work: > > iecset -D hw:0 audio off > aplay -c 2 -r 48000 -f S16_BE -D hw:0,1 w.ac3 Use 'ac3dec -C <ac3file>' from alsa-tools to play .ac3 files. The spdif output of ac3 format requires some padding. You cannot send contents of .ac3 file directly to PCM device. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
