Re: [Alsa-user] VIA8235/ALC650: Data lost reading SPDIF (fwd)

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Alejandro Homs Puron <ah...@es...> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have a Gigabyte GA-7VA motherboard, equiped VIA KT400/VT8235 chipset
> with an Athlon XP 1900+. Its AC97 codec is the Realtek ALC650, capable of
> SPDIF in/out and 6-channel output.
>
> My goal is to decode the AC-3 SPDIF signal from my DVD and to play it
> using the PC. By using alsamixer for configuring the ALC650 to read
> SPDIF in, and a simple spdifac3 program I did to extract AC-3
> from SPDIF stream, I can almost get what I want:
>
> arecord -f dat -t raw | spdifac3 | ac3dec -D sur51
>

I am trying to do the same thing (play DVD AC-3 through PC), and I
haven't gotten anything to work, I can't figure out how to capture SPDIF
input. Could you send me your mixer settings, and the spdifac3 program?
I've got an emu10k1, but I might be able to find something from your
mixer settings.