[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Jackit-devel] Multiplexing 4 channels on SPDIF

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 13:40 +0200, Jussi Laako wrote:
> Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > Core Sound <http://www.core-sound.com/default.php> willsoon
> > be offering a tetrahedral (Ambisonic) microphone at a very
> > reasonable price. They are also working on a combined preamp
> > + AD converter unit for this mic. This will be able to multiplex
> 
> Sounds nice :)
> 
> > So here's my question to both the ALSA and JACK teams: what
> > would be your idea of a solution for this ?
> 
> Some ALSA plugin? Of course, doing it in JACK's ALSA backend is also
> reasonably simple, but would require small changes in many places to
> override samplerates, etc.

I don't think it even needs to be a plugin, just tell ALSA about the
audio format.  Where can the detailed specs be downloaded?

Lee