[mythtv-users] mythmusic iec958 help

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 21:01:57 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Joe Henley <joehenley at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> Gregg,
>
> Hmmm.  Do you still have the original .asoundrc file from FC8?  I'm not
> even sure there was one.  Well, I'm reasonably sure running without any
> .asoundrc is probably OK.
>
> Richard's (hobbes1069) comments about alsamixer are right on.  Make sure
> all the iec958 stuff is unmuted, and set to some reasonably high volume
> level.  You can adjut them to your preferences later, once you know
> which ones do what.
>
> Now, are you getting anything from your receiver?  Some of the indicator
> lights ought to be lighting up to tell you what signals are coming thru.
>
> If you are still getting the syslog errors about rate mismatches, then
> at some point you're going to have to replace your sound card (to get
> proper pitch on CDRoms).

This is a common theme. Do you know of a USB spdif card that supports
44.1kHz? Not all of us have space for more PCI cards!


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