[mythtv-users] spdif problem

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Even more, for those unfamiliar with the audio on a VIA EN12000:
>
> [root at recorder etc]# aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>  Subdevices: 4/4
>  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
>  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
>  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
> card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>  Subdevices: 1/1
>  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> [root at recorder etc]# aplay -L
> front:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
>    VIA 8237, VIA 8237
>    Front speakers
> surround40:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
>    VIA 8237, VIA 8237
>    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
> surround41:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
>    VIA 8237, VIA 8237
>    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> surround50:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
>    VIA 8237, VIA 8237
>    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
> surround51:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
>    VIA 8237, VIA 8237
>    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> iec958:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
>    VIA 8237, VIA 8237
>    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
> null
>    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
>
> Note the names without cards.pcm.
> I also tried the info from http://mythtv.org/wiki/Configuring_Digital_Sound
> but mythfrontend insists in changing e.g. iec958 into cards.pcm.iec958 which
> it cannot find but which aplay finds OK to play audio through. (!!)
>
> Anybody here that knows what is wrong?
>
 1. trim your posts please

2. bottom post please

3. what have you changed between "working" and "suddenly" not working?