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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:50:03 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: snd_hda multichannel support added
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Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org> wrote:

> As sound(4) got multichannel support since FreeBSD 8.0, I've implemented
> multichannel (4.0, 5.1, 7.1) playback support for snd_hda(4) driver.

On a vaguely related note: Is there anything anywhere in the open
source world that real-time encodes multi-channel audio into AC3
or DTS so that it can be squeezed through an S/PDIF link?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de