[alsa-devel] How to choose output channels for AD1386A sound?

[Ihar Hrachyshka]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:27:59 +0000,
>
> Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
>  >
>  > Hello!
>  > I build my BF533-EZKIT-based board (Blackfin processor development
>  > board) sound system on AD1386A sound. I use blackfin.uclinux.org
>  > distribution for it. One of my board's function is to play three
>  > different stereo sound streams simultaneously on it. What I done is
>  > choosing for AD1386 '3 stereos' option. After loading the kernel, my
>  > software is able to open pcm 3 times and plays sound properly, with no
>  > glitches or smth. The only missed functionality is that I can't
>  > specify the needed subdevice I want to play a stream on. I should have
>  > the possibility to play, f.e., mplayer stream on the 3rd stereo output
>  > while the 1st and the 2nd are not used. How can I do it?
>
>  You can pass three numbers to PCM arguments: card, device and
>  subdevice.  For example, the below will choose card = 0, device = 2,
>  subdevice = 1, i.e. the secondary substream:
>         % aplay -Dplughw:0,2,1
That's what I've done:

# arecord -c 2 -f dat -d 30 a.wav
# aplay -Dplughw:0,0,0 a.wav
ALSA sound/blackfin/ad1836.c:924: snd_ad1836_playback_open
Playing WAVE 'aAwLvS A  isnodu1n di/ biltaecEkdfai,nR/ta d8108 3z6 .tcr:o1

   046: snd_ad1836_hw_free
ALSA lib ../../../alsa-lib-1.0.12-svn-rev6478/src/pcm/pcm_plug.c:773:(snd_pcm_plug_hw_refine_schange)
find an usable access for 'plughw:0,0,0'
aplay: set_params:904: Sample format non available

# arecord -c 2 -f S32_LE -d 30 a.wav
# aplay -Dplughw:0,0,0 a.wav
ALSA sound/blackfin/ad1836.c:924: snd_ad1836_playback_open
Playing WAVEA'L.SaA' :sSoguen d2/bbtlLatclk fniinn/ aade18803 6z. ct:r1o0

  46: snd_ad1836_hw_free
ALSA lib ../../../alsa-lib-1.0.12-svn-rev6478/src/pcm/pcm_plug.c:773:(snd_pcm_plug_hw_refine_schange)
to find an usable access for 'plughw:0,0,0'
aplay: ../../aplay/aplay.c: 919: set_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.
Aborted by signal Aborted...

Though ALSA shows that I have 3 subdevices it doesn't work with
plughw:0,0,0..2. What else can I do to iinvestigate the problem?
>
>
>  > Also that would be great if I can optionally play the same stream on
>  > all the outputs.
>
>  You'll need to define a PCM with multi plugin.
>
>
>  Takashi
>