[mythtv-users] spdif passthrough toggle

jansenj jansenj+myth at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 02:29:19 UTC 2009


I've already got simultaneous PCM to analog and spdif, I just want DTS at
times.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:53 PM, jansenj <jansenj+myth at gmail.com<jansenj%2Bmyth at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > I have spdif passthrough set for surround sound to my amp, but I also
> have
> > the analog hooked up directly to the TV so we don't have to have the amp
> > turned on.  Every time I want to watch and listen to something over the
> TV
> > speakers I have to go into the settings menu and deselect the passthrough
> > settings, then when I want to go back to surround sound mode, I have to
> go
> > back into the settings.
> >
> > I've thought about dedicating a button on the remote to toggle between
> two
> > different myth config files and restarting myth frontend.  Does anyone
> have
> > any better ideas that would make for a higher WAF than having to go into
> the
> > audio settings everytime I want to switch back and forth?
>
> The ideal situation would be not to have to, but to have simultaneous
> analog and digital output. I've seen the occasional email on the list
> about some who have managed to get that but it seems very hardware
> dependent.
>
> Actually I've been learning a bit about pulseaudio and it actually
> shouldn't be that difficult to get simultaneous output for analog and
> digital for PCM audio, but AC3/DTS is another story.
>
> Richard
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