Jacob Meuser wrote:
The direction part is clear except for the input-vr0, input-vr50,
input-vr80.
For what reason would I pick each of these? Is this used to reduce
excessively loud inputs?
to be able to use common consumer microphones, you usually need to
have it's jack/pin set for 50% or better VRef. line level inputs
should use Hi-Z (0% VRef) which is just 'input'. yes, that needs
to be explained better in the manual.
What were or weren't the vendor things?
in the case of your codec, nothing. others vary. some are for
power saving switches and some completely undocumented.
Do I see this correctly:
I could play 6 channels with mplayer.
0:1 to one output.
2:3 to another
4:5 to adc-4:5 to sp/dif and then decode that stream externally.
you can't output to an adc. adc is the opposite of dac.
This would then give 5.1 output.
This may seem a little weird to do, but older Sony 5.1 receivers
that are "broken" with easy to fix cold solder joints are only about
$25 to buy.
it may be possible to mix analog and digital output with azalia
hardware, but it is not possible with the azalia driver. to be able
to do that, there would need to be another layer of connections
exposed in the mixer. for now it's either all digital or all analog.
Thanks, that all very clear to me now!
Of course, my problems never seem to end lately.
mplayer -channels 6 works just fine, this leaves playback through spkr
with only background music.
I thought that I could hear another pair of channels with 2:3 but even
when I plug in a set of speakers or a mic, I can't get anything but
unplugged from anything other than spkr.
These are from the three jacks on the back of motherboard
I have tried changing dir to output from input etc, but nothing works
except spkr
Am I doing/thinking wrong here or is something not working correctly?
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