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- Guide to using M-Audio Audiophile USB with ALSA and Jack v1.4
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+ Guide to using M-Audio Audiophile USB with ALSA and Jack v1.5
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Thibault Le Meur <Thibault.LeMeur@supelec.fr>
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- Added Low Endianness nature of 16bits-modes
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found by Hakan Lennestal <Hakan.Lennestal@brfsodrahamn.se>
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- Modifying document structure
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+* v1.5 - Thibault Le Meur (2007-07-12)
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+ - Added AC3/DTS passthru info
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1 - Audiophile USB Specs and correct usage
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@@ -105,9 +107,12 @@ way (I suppose the device's index is 1):
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In this mode, the device uses Big Endian byte-encoding so that
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supported audio format are S16_BE for 16-bit depth modes and S24_3BE for
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-24-bits depth mode. One exception is the hw:1,2 port which is reported
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-to be Little Endian compliant (supposedly supporting S16_LE) but processes
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-in fact only S16_BE streams.
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+24-bits depth mode.
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+
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+One exception is the hw:1,2 port which was reported to be Little Endian
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+compliant (supposedly supporting S16_LE) but processes in fact only S16_BE streams.
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+This has been fixed in kernel 2.6.23 and above and now the hw:1,2 interface
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+is reported to be big endian in this default driver mode.
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Examples:
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* playing a S24_3BE encoded raw file to the Ao port
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% arecord -D hw:1,1 -c2 -t raw -r48000 -fS24_3BE test.raw
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* playing a S16_BE encoded raw file to the Do port
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% aplay -D hw:1,1 -c2 -t raw -r48000 -fS16_BE test.raw
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+ * playing an ac3 sample file to the Do port
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+ % aplay -D hw:1,2 --channels=6 ac3_S16_BE_encoded_file.raw
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If you're happy with the default Alsa driver mode and don't experience any
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issue with this mode, then you can skip the following chapter.
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@@ -205,13 +212,16 @@ mode" above for an aplay command example)
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3.2.1.3 - AC3 w/ DTS passthru mode
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-This mode is untested, I have no AC3 compliant device to test it. I uses:
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+Thanks to Hakan Lennestal, I now have a report saying that this mode works.
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* device_setup=0x03
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- 16bits 48kHz mode with only the Do port enabled
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- - AC3 with DTS passthru (not tested)
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+ - AC3 with DTS passthru
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- Caution with this setup the Do port is mapped to the pcm device hw:1,0
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+The command line used to playback the AC3/DTS encoded .wav-files in this mode:
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+ % aplay -D hw:1,0 --channels=6 ac3_S16_LE_encoded_file.raw
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3.2.2 - How to use the device_setup parameter
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