pl bossart wrote: > If I play my AC3 data on my HDAudio/SPDIF output using the hw:0,1 > device, I can use alsamixer/amixer to mute/unmute. > > Now if I use the iec958: plugin, I can't control the mute switch any longer: Muting an AC-3 stream would require encoding a stream of silent PCM samples (no data is not the same as silence); therefore, the iec958 plugin disallows muting. Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel