[pulseaudio-discuss] Problems with pulseaudio / asla on PS3

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 31.08.08 03:45, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:

> On Sun, 31.08.08 10:36, Kevin Gilbert (kevin952 at tpg.com.au) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Lennart Poettering opined:
> > > > 2) There is no file in the PulseAudio source package that has the string
> > > > SNDRV_PCM_INFO_NONINTERLEAVED or even just the word NONINTERLEAVED!
> > > > Therefore, does PulseAudio support devices that use the NONINTERLEAVED
> > > > mode?
> > >
> > > We don't support NONTERLEAVED natively. We rely on ALSA to reformat
> > > the data properly for us. ALSA does this for us when we open it via
> > > the "plughw" device string, which we try to open as last resort if all
> > > the other strings (like "front") don't work.[^1]
> > 
> > OK, I'll report this to the ALSA folk and point them to this thread for and 
> > details.
> 
> Hm, no, pleas don't yet. The original dump you posted shows that at
> last try "hw:" was opened, not "plughw:". This was changed in 0.9.11.
> 
> Could you check if 0.9.11 or current git can initialize on your sound card?

Also, in curent git I just made some fixes (r1c4ad4b) that should fix
your problems and also allow surround sound. (and while fixing this I
also fixed an alsa issue as side effect) I'd be very thankful if you
could test if current git works for you now out-of-the-box!

Lennart

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