[mythtv-users] Alsa sound out

[Peter Buelow]

I've seen about a thousand posts about issues similar to this, but still 
no answer. Nothing on the web either.

Anyway, mplayer works, I can play dvd's, but nothing from TV or music. 
Basically, myth can't use alsa and my .asoundrc from the digital sound 
guide (nvidia binary driver, nvidia setup in asoundrc), but mplayer can. 
The error I get is Output Error. AudioOutput: timed-out waiting for for 
'ALSA:spdif'. Note that I get this error on every ALSA setting. Anything 
using alsa times out. I can actually apparently use /dev/dsp, but don't 
have a hook up to test there is any sound coming out. I figure this is 
something I just missed, but have been searching and googling all night 
with out finding much. Anyone seen something like this? I'm digging into 
the code next to find the error and see if I can figure out what's not 
happening that way.

-Pete