[RFT] Major snd_hda rewrite

[Alexander Motin]

On 28.01.2012 04:58, Mickaël Maillot wrote:
> 2012/1/25 Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org <mailto:mav at freebsd.org>>
>
>
>     Commenting it appeared not good, as at least mplayer doesn't sets
>     channels for AC3. That makes sound(4) use default 1 channel for AC3,
>     that is definitely not supported. I believe this should be better:
>     http://svn.freebsd.org/__changeset/base/230537
>     <http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230537>
>
>     Also, as soon as sound(4) interprets 8 channel as 7.1 by default,
>     I've changed previous patch a bit to allow both "8.0" and "7.1" AC3
>     formats:
>     http://svn.freebsd.org/__changeset/base/230513
>     <http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230513>
>
>
> thank, i can set 8 channels without vchan now.
>
>     For me this at least doesn't break normal AC3 operation and when I
>     hacked mplayer to set 8 channels, I can see predictable codec
>     configuration and time in mplayer predictably running 4 times
>     faster. Unluckily mplayer seems doesn't support TrueHD passthrough
>     to ckeck closer -- it always does decoding.
>
>
> ok i think i found the problem: in
> http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230511
> cchn is equal to 7 for me if i set SNDCTL_DSP_CHANNELS to 8.
> and it's why HBR bit is not set.
>
> it's confirmed in my /v/l/messages where chan_count=0x7:
> Jan 28 03:23:53 htpc kernel: hdac1: 24576Kbps of 92160Kbps bandwidth used
> Jan 28 03:23:53 htpc kernel: pcm4: PCMDIR_PLAY: Stream setup
> fmt=02800400 (7.1) speed=192000
> Jan 28 03:23:53 htpc kernel: pcm4: PCMDIR_PLAY: Stream setup nid=4:
> fmt=0x1817, dfmt=0x0021, chan=0x0010, chan_count=0x07, stripe=1

You are right. Fixed: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230641

Thank you!

-- 
Alexander Motin