On Fri, 23.05.08 19:50, Jon Smirl (jonsmirl at gmail.com) wrote: > > > Yes, of course. Would be awesome. However, neither HAL nor ALSA > > > provide enough information about whether the SPDIF and analog outputs > > > are exclusive to each other or not. > > > > > > If they are not exclusive (which is the case on most devices) we need > > > to be able to switch the output during runtime. > > Are you sure they aren't exclusive most of the time? S/PDIF is > assigned a separate slot in both the HDA and AC97 protocols. That > makes me think that they should be exclusive in most hardware. Now of > course the driver may be cloning the output in software. See what Takashi has to say about this: http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2008-April/007320.html Scroll down to "The question remains: what exactly is ...?" Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
