On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 09:36:22AM -0400, Marc Lavallée wrote:
But when running jackd with my 16bit USB module,
Mplayer is converting
its output to 16bit. When running Jack with a 24bit sound card or the
aloop device, Mplayer's output is floatle (as expected), even when
forcing Jack to run in 16bit with the "--short" option.
As said, unless you have some voodoo SW on your machine, that is
not possible. If mplayer uses jack, it doesn not know anything
about the sound card. Not the sample format, not the number of
channels, only the sample frequency.
Another problem: when starting Jack with a 2 channels
sound card,
Mplayer can't output more than 2 channels.
Again, mplayer can't know this. Your are probably running on
some other soundcard, not using Jack.
Ciao,
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