[mythtv-users] Having problem with Digital Out and Live TV

[Norm]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 19:12 -0400, mlists wrote:
> Ok, so based on the price of the Logitech X-5500 powered speakers, I
> went out and got them.
> 
> WOW is all I can say.  Got them working in digital mode easily with
> mplayer by putting the following in the config file:
> 
> ao="alsa:device=spdif" #audio out
> ac="hwac3"
> 
> The problem is with watching TV - I get the following and I'm not sure
> how to decipher the problem to fix it - has anyone seen this, and any
> suggestions on how to fix it?
> 

I fixed the problem -- was rather simple actually.  You can't select 5.1
channels when using digital I guess.  I set it to stereo and it fact it
is coming through with full surround sound now.

Norm