[mythtv-users] HD-3000, FC4, PVR-250/500

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 17:58:24 UTC 2006


On Sunday 08 January 2006 12:33, Chris Lynch wrote:
> On 1/8/06, Chris Lynch <lynchseattle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I *think* I'm a little closer, but still somewhat struggling after
> > playing with this a few hours.  Is there a way to tell Myth to use
> > specific audio PIDs?  I can't seem to find a way to do this and worked
> > through a number of channels as you described above, but am not sure what
> > else I can give myth outside of the PIDs themselves.
> >
> > I do get sound when playing back from mplayer something I cat from dvr0.
> > The catch is that if I play back I really have to specify -ac hwac3 for
> > mplayer.  This got me thinking that maybe Myth is not pasing AC3 out to
> > my spdif port.  I *do* have the MythTV option to pass AC3 turned on and
> > I'm using the .asoundrc from Jarod's site with mixed digital for ALSA.
> >
> > Is anyone else sending AC3 from a DVB stream over SPDIF?  If so, what
> > does your .asoundrc look like?
>
> To confirm that I'm not crazy, I recorded a show in Myth and played it back
> on my Windows box.  It has full sound, but on Myth, using ALSA:spdif, I get
> no sound.  If I uncheck the box in Myth to do AC3 passthrough, I *also* get
> sound, but of course no AC3.
>
> I'm still investigating, but I'm curious if anyone with a HD-3000 is
> outputing AC3 over spdif?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris

I am.

been able to pass any ac3 stream through the spdif on your SBLive through say 
mplayer?

the Live! is fine for spdif, so maybe asking in a seperately titles post for 
someon using their SBLive for spdif output for their asoundrc, then enter the 
proper ALSA:? in Myth.

-- 
Steve


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