[mythtv-users] Analogue 5.1 Surround Sound Out

James Buckley xanium4332 at googlemail.com
Tue Jan 2 17:32:08 UTC 2007


Should I be getting the Duplicate Front problem though? (even without
the patch).

I'll try the patch in a minute, having exams tomorrow is making
revision quite a high priority...

Thanks so far, James

On 02/01/07, MythTV User <mythuser at mydean.com> wrote:
> This is what I desire as well. Last night, I was busy getting the ALSA
> correctly configured using this link
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound
>
> So far, the regular Front L and R are working, I have not checked the other
> channels yet as I ran out of time.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of James Buckley
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:38 AM
> To: MythTV Users
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Analogue 5.1 Surround Sound Out
>
> Hello all...
>
> I was wondering how to enable 5.1 surround sound in myth? Is it as simple as
> editing the sound device to 'ALSA:surround51'.
>
> See me, being a poor man, cannot afford an external digital audio system
> (which would allow me to just enable 'AC3 Passthrough' to get surround
> sound). Instead I have a 5.1 surround sound speaker system (like the ones
> you can get for PCs). I was wondering how to get the
> 5.1 audio from DVDs & etc..
>
> At the moment it just seems to clone a stereo output over all my channels,
> and I have no option in alsamixer for setting 'Duplicate Front'.
>
> Any info would be great.
>
> Thanks in advance, James
>
> P.S., my Motherboard's an MSI K8NGM2-FID, with 7.1 and SPDIF audio out. ALSA
> uses the 'hda-intel' driver.
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