[mythtv-users] Digital Audio on HDMI MB not working

[Rob Rosenfeld]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Allen Edwards
<allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Both Andrew and Phil seem to be having the same problem, getting MythTV to
> work with an HDMI motherboard.  I would suggest these threads be combined.
>  So, the common thing is that both of you are trying to get audio out of an
> HDMI motherboard.  But you have different chips, one an ALC883 and one an
> ALC1200.  So, it is probably not the chipset.
> The settings I have been suggesting work on an ASUS M3A which does not have
> HDMI so I suspect it is HDMI related. I see from some of your postings that
> the exact settings for spdif are different as you two have at least two
> options for digital output and I have one.  One of you said that there were
> three toggles in alsamixer, where I have only one, for example.
> The statement in the setup ALSA:spdif is probably incorrect for HDMI and
> likely are incorrect for the spdif part of your HDMI MB as well.  I think
> you two can learn from each other here although one is looking for spdif and
> the other for HDMI audio.
> Other than that, I think what is needed is someone who has HDMI on the MB
> and Myth working.
> Anyone?
> Allen
>

Instead of setting ALSA:spdif, I had to manually type ALSA:hw=0,3 as
my HDMI was device 3 on card 0 as indicated by `aplay -l`