Re: [alsa-devel] External Sound Card

John Dey wrote:

Thanks for your response. The 5.1 or 7.1 capability is not as important to me as having 6 or 8 independent jack channels to connect 4 or 8 channels from an application (ambiosonics from aeolus). Without adding the a52 plugin would I see more than 2 outputs in qjackctl?

No; SPDIF has been designed to transport two channels. The only way to get the data of more channels through SPDIF is to compress it with some algorithm like AC-3/DD/DTS.

With the plugin would I see 6 outputs?

Yes.

HTH Clemens