Re: HDMI Audio Support in ALSA

[Clemens Ladisch]

(please don't top-post)

Kallol Biswas wrote:
> Can ALSA handle HDMI audio frames? It does not look so.

Why do you think so?

> Do you need a pointer to HDMI audio spec (L-PCM, IEC 60958 IEC 61937 etc.)?

L-PCM is linear PCM, which is the sample format used by practically
_every_ sound card.  IEC 60958 is AES/EBU, which is essentially S/PDIF,
which uses linear PCM samples.  IEC 61937 specifies how to transport
compressed streams over S/PDIF, by pretending the data stream is a
sequence of linear PCM samples.

All of this is supported by ALSA.


Regards,
Clemens
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