Re: alsa problem with ogle

Fri Jun 10 2005, Max wrote:
> as suggested i disabled esd and commented out the ac3 tag in oglerc and 
> now all works well...

are you getting the audio via spdif?


> with the ac3 tag on the sound is audible but with a lot of noise....

yes, if you try to play ac3 via standard stereo pcm then all you get is noise.
So if the card isn't setup to send the spdif headers for ac3 then your receiver
will just think it is stereo sound. Maybe you need to set the device
name to
<alsa>
        <name>iec958:AES0=0x2,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2</name>
</alsa>
or do some other of the steps in FAQ #43


> this is not the most elegant way, but shutting down esd seems to be the 
> only way...
> 
> commenting out the ac3 tage make also disappears the string:
> 
> ERROR[ogle_audio]: Unable to update the IEC958 control: No such file or 
> directory
Without the ac3 tag, ogle will not try to output ac3, it will just
produce normal pcm sound.


/Bj|rn