[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2] Fix forward/rewind support in iec958 plugin
clemens at ladisch.de
Fri Apr 25 10:09:37 CEST 2014
Raymond Yau wrote:
>> When forwarding or rewinding, the frame counter was not updated. This
>> could result in corrupted channel status words or misplaced Z-type
> Do you mean it is the responsibility for a52 and dca plugin to return the
> SAFE value returned by snd_pcm_rewindable and snd_pcm_forwardable since
> they enocde the audio and padding zeros and write to IEC958 ?
The a52/dca plugins create data to be transferred over S/PDIF, but this
does not imply they use the iec958 plugin.
The iec958 plugin is used for sound cards that do not have a hardware
IEC958 encoder. This is very unlikely nowadays.
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