[linux-audio-user] recording AC-3

Has anyone managed to record an AC-3 audio stream from an nforce4 mobo? It's got a coax spdif in, and it claims to have two capture devices: Linux-x86_64-2.6.14 $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [CK804 ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK804 NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at 0xfebfd000, irq 16 Linux-x86_64-2.6.14 $ cat /proc/asound/devices 18: [0- 2]: digital audio playback 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture 0: [0- 0]: ctl 33: : timer but using arecord -D hw:0,1 -f dat /dev/null gives an i/o error. 0,0 just gives silence, so I'm assuming that it's the mic in. This is with ALSA 1.0.8 and kernel 2.6.14 Is it even possible to do this? If not, has anyone done this with some other soundcard? On a somewhat related note, how do you use ecasignalview on these alsa devices (since you can't use a , in the filename). TIA -- Tony Lill, Tony.Lill(a)AJLC.Waterloo.ON.CA President, A. J. Lill Consultants fax/data (519) 650 3571 539 Grand Valley Dr., Cambridge, Ont. N3H 2S2 (519) 241 2461 --------------- http://www.ajlc.waterloo.on.ca/ ---------------- "Welcome to All Things UNIX, where if it's not UNIX, it's CRAP!"