On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:59:37 +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:37:05PM +0200, Per Mellander wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:15:44 +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote > > > > > > > My amplifier works great With your bitstreamout plugin, but I can't get > > > > the sound in sync. And with loopthrough the nonaudiobit isn't set :( > > > > I use the soundcard "C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)". > > > > > > You can not set the nonaudio bit in loop through mode. > > > AFAIK the ALSA driver does not support that. > > > > > > > Why loop at all then? What's the difference between connecting DVB card SPDIF > > output directly to reciever and looping via CMI8738 card ?? > > You can switch between MP2 and AC3 audio on channel change. > You can mute/unmute even if digital connected. > > > > > Does the soundcard do anything else than act as a 'dumb' connector? Pretty > > expensive extension ;D > > CM8738 are extremly inexpensive ... OK beside the huge > winning marges of some resellers. > > Expensive sound cards cross the 100 Euro/Dollar boundary > and really good sound cards can be used in slave mode. > That is that the sound card does not use its own quart > as clock reference but the incomming clock given by > the S/P-DIF in ... which is very usefull for e.g. > LiveTV. > > Werner Point taken ;) Thanks for your efforts in explaining the subject. Have a nice weekend! /Mel
