[mythtv-users] GeForce 6150, SPDIF, digital passthru - Success!

Jason fearthepenguin at jasonandjessi.com
Thu Oct 5 02:43:26 UTC 2006


I've never used the SPDIF on my receiver, so this is a very uneducated
question,  but if I switch to the spdif output of my soundcard, could I
use that as my audio out for all of my content, even if it doesn't have
AC3 encoding?   MP3s and what not?  It would be nice to have one,
hi-fidelity audio out into my receiver and not have to switch inputs
between DVDs and OTA TV.

Jason
The place where you made your stand never mattered,
only that you were there... and still on your feet



Richard Krehbiel wrote:
> I've done it.  I have digital passthru from MythTV via coax SPDIF.
>
> MSI K9NGM2-FID Socket AM2 GeForce 6150.
> Fedora Core 5, Linux kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp.
>
> Here's what made the difference: I downloaded and installed ALSA
> 1.0.13 from alsa-project.org <http://alsa-project.org>.
>
> I had been testing with mplayer, to get it to pass AC3 from DVD to
> SPDIF, and even after the new ALSA version, it still didn't.  But I
> tried mythfrontend anyway - and it worked!
>
> And with that, I'm happy enough.  For now.
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