[mythtv-users] OSS -vs- ALSA sound

[Ian Forde]

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 03:04, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> For mplayer, the default viewer in MythVideo and MythDVD, I just added 
> '-ao alsa9' to the command line. Works great for me on my Audigy, and 
> like Ian said, anything and everything plays out the digital coax 
> connection to my Yamaha amp, which also like Ian's, switches on the fly 
> to handle whatever gets thrown at it.

Yeah, but for passthrough in ac3-encoded files in MythVideo I found I
had to use '-ac hwac3' as well.  Now having said that, I don't remember
if I had to do the same for dvd playing (although I believe I might have
had to)

	-I

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