[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] iec958

[Remus Koos]

  Diego and Clemens, 
  Thanks a lot for your quick replies.

> You're trying to ignore the "device" suboption, but you're disabling the
> "noblock" suboption, too.

  Oops, that wasn't the intent ;-) ...

> Well, hardcoding the card number as zero isn't guaranteed to be correct.
> This is one of the things I always wanted to change.

  Maybe we should be able to specify the card number in the command line, no ?

> > If the stream is not AC3 then iec958 is used.
> ... if "iec958" was explicitly set as device name.

  Yes, correct.
 
> What it should do is to set the AESx parameters for any device used for
> AC3 playback, regardless of whether it is the default device name or was 
> specified by the user.  (The user-specified device may not support the
> AESx parameters, but there are ALSA functions to find out if this is the
> case.)

  Ok, that makes sense. I actually tried to set the AES parameters from the
command line but it didn't work. But it is nicer if this is "automagically"
done in the code.
 
> I'll write a patch for this.

  Thank you.

  I also have a somewhat related question. Is it possible to play audio through
the SPDIF interface and the analog interface at the same time ? If yes, can you
please point me to an example of how to do this ?

  Thanks again, 

   remus

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