[mythtv-users] Fedora Core 2 + MythTV + SB Live + Digital sound out via SPDIF

[henk willems]

Hi,

I've been struggling with this for about a month now... read a lot about 
ALSA and digital sound out but I just can't get it to work. At first, Alsa 
didn't output anything via spdif, then I read something about a bug that 
required alsa to be the same version as alsa-lib (or the other way around) 
so I installed another alsa lib. Now I do get digital sound out using xine 
for example (my external amp says "Dolby Digital" and "DTS" whenever these 
audio tracks are chosen on a dvd) but the sound is really bad. It sounds 
like it drops 9 frames of every 10 if you can speak of frames in audio... 
it's jittery and chunky.

My question, has anyone been able to get this to work properly? I'm using 
Fedora Core as described in Jarod's guide and MYthTV 0.16. I know it's 
another thing to get regular sound on the spdif but I didn't even get 
started on that yet... I'm kinda freaking out here!

Any suggestions / help would be very appreciated.