Clemens,
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? With the plugin would I see 6 outputs?
On Oct 30, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:s
John Dey wrote:
I am looking for a external sound card that has spdif (7.1) functioning.
7.1 encoding is done in software, not in hardware. I don't know of any 7.1 encoder for Linux.
ALSA has the a52 plugin that can do 5.1 encoding for any sound card that has SPDIF, but you'd have to compile it with the ffmpeg library to get it to work.
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