<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>My default.pa line has rate set at 48000 which I guess would take precedence: load-module module-alsa-sink device=Filter_RateConvert rate=48000 sink_properties=device.description=SPDIF sink_name=SPDIF)<br><br>But just in case, I tried changing default-sample-rate = 48000 in daemon.conf.<br><br>The error I got was:<br><br>D: alsa-sink.c: snd_pcm_mmap_commit: Resource temporarily unavailable<br>E: alsa-sink.c: Assertion 'err != -11' failed at modules/alsa/alsa-sink.c:395, function try_recover(). Aborting.<br><br><span>BTW, I got the setup using a rate converter from here: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.johannes-bauer.com/linux/dolby/?menuid=3">http://www.johannes-bauer.com/linux/dolby/?menuid=3</a> where this chap says "</span><span class="font_vim_c_comment"># Rate Converter to 48kHz, needed for
some applications</span>" in his advanced set up. He didn't mention Pulseaudio, but it seems to do the trick.<br><br>Regarding AC3 encoding in Pulseaudio - it would be better because at the moment switching between stereo and A52 is not possible (ie. I cannot have both these lines in default.pa:<br>load-module module-alsa-sink device=Filter_RateConvert rate=48000 sink_properties=device.description=AC3 sink_name=AC3<br>load-module module-alsa-sink device=ALC889A_Digital sink_properties=device.description=SPDIF sink_name=SPDIF<br><br>Presumably the SPDIF out is locked by one of them, then the other fails. With ac3 encoding in Pulseaudio, this would be switchable without editing any files.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Mike<br><br><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> pl bossart <bossart.nospam@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> General PulseAudio Discussion <pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, 10 July, 2010 16:12:26<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] {PATCH][RFC] AC3 passthrough support<br></font><br>> But I still need to go via the rate converter to the a52 encoder in<br>> asoundrc.<br><br>Have you set the default sink frequency to 48kHz in<br>/usr/etc/pulse/daemon.conf? This should handle resampling in<br>PulseAudio.<br>Still not clear why rewind doesn't work.<br>- Pierre<br>_______________________________________________<br>pulseaudio-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de" href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de">pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de</a><br><a
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