I'd possibly be willing to temporarily donate hardware for you to play with. If I sent you a Asus P5E-VM that has the G35 chipset would you have the other necessary hardware to test it with, ie. receiver with HDMI audio input, cpu, ram, etc? Otherwise, what kind of technical details would you be looking for, I could help test, but I am not a programmer. Thanks.
-----Original Message----- From: Takashi Iwai [mailto:tiwai@suse.de] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:18 AM To: Dustin Kerstein Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] HDMI Multichannel LPCM/RAW Support/Status
At Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:11:17 -0500, Dustin Kerstein wrote:
I was just curious if there is any planned support for multichannel
LPCM/Raw
audio for newer HDMI based chipsets. There are several matx boards with
HDMI
1.1 and above compliance, which means they should be able to pass
8-channel
LPCM audio. Also, in HDMI 1.3 and above, Bit Stream passing is supported, which actually should be easier, bandwidth wise, than LPCM. Multichannel
PCM
(above 2 channels) was never an issue because SPDIF lacked the bandwidth. After talking with some people in irc it seems as though the # of channels setting in Alsa is only one bit. Thanks.
Well, I have no plan yet because I have no such a hardware...
I'm willing to help implementation if you can give any pointers for technical details.
Takashi