[mythtv-users] Alsa SPDIF SP13000 (via8237)

[Nick]

On 14/08/06, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
> A common problem this week it seems is getting all parts of Mythtv to
> output via SPDIF!
>
> My hardware seems to work OK in that xine setup in passthrough mode is
> fine and I can use "aplay -D spdif xxx.wav" but I can't find the hardware
> device that actually outputs to the SPDIF connector. ie. "aplay -D
> hw:0,0,3 xxx.wav" does nothing. This means I can't map the hardware to a
> virtual device to set up rate conversion etc.
>
> Device 0 has 4 subdevices - tried all of them, nowt...
> Device 1 has 1 subdevice - no luck there either.
>
> It seems that maybe alsa has a bug (I'm using 1.0.11) such that there is
> no mapping to a hw device for the SPDIF output? Anyone with an Epia
> SP13000 had any luck?

What's the output of

# aplay -l

One of the devices listed should be the IEC958 playback device, and
from that you can work out the hardware device (card num, device num).

Nick

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