[mythtv-users] Feature Request: ALSA output

[Stephen Tait]

At 16:38 25/07/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
>
>>well, but this just uses the ALSA OSS kernel emulation via /dev/dsp. I am 
>>asking about native ALSA support. In the GUI there is also no place to 
>>specify the ALSA device, only which /dev/dsp to use (same for mixer).
>>
>Use the keyword ALSA: with the output device after it.  For example 
>ALSA:spdif.  Make sure that ALSA is all capital letters.  This has come up 
>before in the archives.

I can't find the thread now, but it's in my archive somewhere. I was under 
the impression that the native ALSA support in Myth wasn't at 100%; you can 
use output via the ALSA:default doohickey just fine (using it myself), but 
AFAICR you can't specify a mixer device other than /dev/dsp or 
/dev/sound/dsp via ALSA-OSS emulation. I think I remember a post from Isaac 
saying the support was "broken", so a feature request is prolly the wrong 
idea... more like bugfixes and/or additions to the docs.

Again, IIRC, if you use SPDIF passthrough with ALSA:spdif you don't need 
the mixer setting anyway, since the volume would be handled by whatever 
device you pass the SPDIF to. But a bit of a bugger for people like me 
who'd like to excise OSS completely (but what the hell, I'm still using 
2.4), but no major hassle.