Re: [Alsa-user] Can this be done?

[Takashi I. <ti...@su...>]

At Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:56:13 +0300,
Peter wrote:
> 
> I'm probably dumb as a beetle.
>  
> Here's what I would like to set up:
>  
> (MythTV) box with MPlayer, 6-channel AC3 stream needs to go out passthrough via SPDIF
> to external decoder, AND at the same time decoded stereo signal out of analog output,
> AND decoded stereo signal out of Bluetooth audio interface. So essentially I want a
> single (6 or 2 channel) AC3 stream to play out of 3 interfaces. Currently I can get
> stereo sound out of SPDIF + analog (but then I lose 5.1), OR 5.1 AC3 signal out of
> SPDIF but not both.
>  
> I've browsed thru ALSA docs, FAQs and googled around but cannot find a solution. Can
> this be done at all?

It's not so easy because usually decoding is done by the application,
not by the sound system.  That is, your app is responsible to output
two different file formats to individual devices at the same time, in
addition to the hardware setup.


Takashi