<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2017-07-12 22:58 GMT+02:00 Tanu Kaskinen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tanuk@iki.fi" target="_blank">tanuk@iki.fi</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I don't know how the endpoints are supposed to agree on the format, and<br>
what kind of interface alsa provides for that (if any). The alsa-devel<br>
list might be more appropriate for questions about spdif details.<span class="gmail-"><br></span></blockquote><div> <br></div><div>I've raised this question to alsa-user mail list, here is the response I got (<a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg32163.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg32163.html</a>):<br><pre>> There would be a mixer control "IEC958 Capture Default" associated with
> the PCM device (i.e., not a real mixer control visible in alsamixer),
> containing the channel status bits; the "IEC958 Capture Mask" control
> defines which bits are valid.</pre>Although it is not yet supported for USB cards, is pulseaudio able to read this information and provide it to applications?<br><br></div><div>Best regards,<br></div><div>Denis Shulyaka<br></div></div></div></div>