On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Mohammad Bahathir Hashim <bahathir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2010-11-24, John Ettedgui <john.ettedgui@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am sorry to resurrect this thread after so long, but I still have >> not been able to get anywhere. >> Also it just came to my attention that if my receiver always sees the >> hdmi connection as stereo (apart from when using ac3/dts passthrough) >> channel remapping is not the solution, but somehow something else is >> messed up. >> >> I think I should try some options in modprobe.conf for snd-hda-intel >> but I am not sure which ones, and from all the examples I can find on >> the web, it seems none of them are talking about a radeon hdmi >> connection... >> >> So I'm asking for advice here again :) >> >> Thanks! >> _______________________________________________ >> Alsa-devel mailing list >> Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel > > > > Hi, I think there are developments in ffmpeg projects, to support > multichannel passthrough through HDMI, ALSO only provides infra and > interface to the HDMI. The passthrough decoding is handled by apps. > > > Here is the snippet from the ffmpeg's 'svn log' > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r25760 | cehoyos | 2010-11-17 20:22:59 +0800 (Wed, 17 Nov 2010) | 6 lines > > Add support for IEC 61937 ("SPDIF") encapsulation for E-AC-3. > Only works via HDMI. > > Patch by Anssi Hannula (anssi d hannula a iki d fi), based on some work > by myself. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > You can search in ffmpeg's development's mailing list for more information. > > Thank you. > Hey Mohammad, I'm actually trying to get a 5.1 setup working without passthrough, if I use mplayer with passthrough my receiver behaves just fine, but I am trying to send the 6 channels from the computer. I was actually told that the current ALSA driver for radeon's hdmi does not support more than 2 channels, and that would explain why I'm getting this behavior. Is that true though? Thanks! John _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
