[mythtv-users] Static noise from AC3 passthrough

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/30/2006 12:05 PM, Steve Skarda wrote:
> Do you have the same problem if you use the  ALSA:spdif as your sound 
> device?   I am not that familar with Alsa but I think that is the 
> default for digital and it causes alsa to ignore your asoundrc.   I 
> could be way-wrong on that but I have gotten it to work on my system 
> with Alsa:spdif and no asoundrc at all.

It doesn't really ignore the .asoundrc--it just uses a device name that 
was configured by the ALSA developers instead of one configured by the 
user.  The spdif device is identical to the "digital" device in the 
.asoundrc on the wiki (assuming the user properly configures the card 
and device numbers as described in the comments), but it does not do 
format and rate conversion, so it will /only/ work with 48kHz PCM (or 
AC-3 or DTS) output.

Mike