Re: looping S/PDIF data

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Mon Jun 02 2008 - 04:01:07 EST


At Sat, 31 May 2008 11:26:06 +0200,
Pierre Ossman wrote:
>
> I have a minor annoyance with the snd_trident driver that I was hoping
> you might have a fix for:
>
> Pausing the output does not seem to take on the S/PDIF output. Analog
> outputs properly stop in their tracks, but the S/PDIF port keeps
> looping the current data buffer, which gives a rather unpleasant end
> result. :)
>
> Also, I was wondering if the hardware is capable of automatically
> shuffling data from the line in ADC to the S/PDIF port? The driver
> doesn't expose anything, but I don't know if that's because of missing
> code or missing hardware.

AFAIK, there is no analog loopback for SPDIF on trident. At least,
the driver doesn't support it.

The easiest way would be a software solution, e.g. use JACK, I
suppose.


Takashi
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