[mythtv-users] SPDIF output works for MythMusic, but not MythTV

Ian Trider iantri at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 21:24:28 UTC 2005


> >  I'm running Myth-0.17 on Mandrake 10.1 with a PVR350 and a Soundblaster
> > Audigy. When I run MythMusic, I *do* get sound out of the S/PDIF outputs on
> > the Audigy, but when I run MythTV, I get no sound through S/PDIF. For MythTV,
> > I have to resort to the sound from the PVR350 instead, which means every time
> > I switch from TV to music, I have to change the inputs on my receiver.

> there may be a better solution than this:
> you can buy a male to male stereo patch cable and plug one end into
> the output of your pvr-350 and the other into the input of your sound
> card.  when you listen to music it will be the same as usual.  when
> you watch tv you should now get sound out of the SPDIF port.
> not pretty, but it should work.

FYI the reason this happens is because the PVR-350 takes the WHOLE
stream and deals with it itself -- it handles the audio.  No audio is
passed to the soundcard. To get MythTV recorded show playback and
other output together you need to pipe it all through your soundcard.
-- 
Ian Trider
iantri at gmail.com


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