[Alsa-user] Re: ALSA and SPDIF

[Robert La F. <rob...@co...>]

Peter Zubaj wrote:

>>The problem I have is that if ALSA can send stereo (front left +
>>    
>>
>right) >over SPDIF, why can't it send the other channels too?
>
>This is  ok, but if you need 5.1 over spdif, then you need AC3 encoded
>stream. Try to play some DVD with xine or mplayer.
>  
>
speaker-test should work first though, right?  If it can't work, there's 
no use in going any further like using xine or mplayer, right?  It 
doesn't work and I never could get xine to work so I am trying to debug 
it and figure out where the problem lies.