> Oh I see you completely removed the a52 plugin support... any reason? > I'd rather the support was just fixed rather than removed completely. > > My patch should fix the assert, but not sure what the next stage of > fixing it would be. > > Also your patch seems to use "hw:" names in the profiles. This is bad. > any reason why it was changed? If there is a problem using iec958:%f on > your machine, I'd expect it's an alsa bug. Using hw:%f,1 is almost > certainly broken. My patch was deliberately provocative to see if there were any good reasons why things were the way they are.... I find it very strange to encode with a52 and rely on surround40. The latter duplicates what PulseAudio could do, and the former is a lossy codec that will decrease the audio quality while increasing the workload on your computer. You are probably better off sending stereo and letting your receiver doing the post-processing. If you are using encoding as a means to work around the limitations of S/PDIF, then change to HDMI, it'll remove the need for encoding and will give you a better control on lip-sync. Also I have two devices on my sound card, one is analog out and the other is the digital out. Changing the configuration toggles between the two sinks. I did not want to use the IEC plugin as it entails some memory copies that are totally unnecessary, it works fine without it so why bother?
