Re: [xine-user] ALSA Driver

[Joachim <joa...@gm...>]

Guenter Bartsch wrote:
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> On Sat, 19 May 2001, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> > I have found out that there are no S/P DIF bypass drivers for Linux yet.
> > ASLA or Kernel.
 
> that's not entirely correct, at least 4front say they support ac3
> pass-through in their drivers for SB Live!

Also 4DWave is supported and in xine 0.3.x is a driver to bypass AC3
data.
I even have a version here to bypass DTS data (this will come to xine
0.5
soon :)

 
> afaik you need to give some DSP instructions to get this to work. If I
> remember correctly there has been a patch for this on the ALSA mailing
> lists a while ago; that patch is reported to break some other things but
> could be a nice point to start from.
> 
> > I suppose I could start adding 0.9 ALSA support to xine,
Yes, if you like just start to get alsa 0.9 support in the current 0.5
xine alsa
driver. But please keep it compatible with alsa 0.4.x (with ifdefs at
compiletime).

> > but I would want to
> > add this to xine-lib, and I have not worked out if xine-lib is in a good
> > enough state to test with it yet. xine-ui certainly cannot use it, I won't
> > compile without xine, and  xine-lib does not provide xine. How do I get
> > xine-ui to display a GUI and work with xine-lib?
> 
> after my last commit yesterday xine-lib and xine-ui compile and run again,

That's good to hear. Finaly I can start to work again :))

mfg
Joachim