[mythtv-users] SPDIF suddenly quit working.

[Allen Edwards]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Derek Tattersall <tatters at newsguy.com>wrote:

> I had everything working, then my computer crashed.
>
> Now when I try to play a recording back through the spdif port, I get this
> message:
>
> 2009-12-18 20:05:25.305 AFD: Opened codec 0x7eff643122c0, id(AC3)
> type(Audio)
> 2009-12-18 20:05:25.305 AFD: codec AC3 has 2 channels
> 2009-12-18 20:05:25.305 AFD: Opened codec 0x7eff6430ec70, id(AC3)
> type(Audio)
> 2009-12-18 20:05:25.305 AFD: codec AC3 has 2 channels
> 2009-12-18 20:05:25.306 AFD: Opened codec 0x7eff6430e780, id(AC3)
> type(Audio)
> 2009-12-18 20:05:25.388 Opening audio device 'default'. ch 6(2) sr 48000
> 2009-12-18 20:05:25.388 Opening ALSA audio device 'iec958:{ AES0 0x02 }'.
> 2009-12-18 20:05:25.389 AudioOutput Error: snd_pcm_open(iec958:{ AES0 0x02
> }): No such file or directory
> 2009-12-18 20:05:25.389 NVP(8): Disabling Audio, reason is:
> snd_pcm_open(iec958:{ AES0 0x02 }): No such file or directory
>
>
> This was working before I crashed the computer.
>
>
> How do I track down what the problem is? The iec958 device used to exist.
> How do I figure out what happened to it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Derek Tattersall
>
>
>
Just a shot but why don't you look in the bios and see if there are some
settings there to enable or select the kind of audio you are using.  Perhaps
that changed as it seems from your description that you likely didn't change
the software.

Allen
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