<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt</b> <<a href="mailto:skd5aner@gmail.com">skd5aner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> Also... I have myth set to ALSA:digital and the mixer set to "digital"<br>> and the drop down next to the set to PCM.<br>><br>> I can still verify that analog shows get sent to the receiver as PCM.
<br>><br>> What now?<br>><br>> Thanks!<br>> Matt<br>><br><br>Well, I found out another thing...<br><br> - The receiver was set to AFD (Auto Format Decode). It was able to<br>instantly identify the PCM stuff as two channel, but it never detects
<br>the AC3 passthrough as true AC3. I had to manually set it to<br>"surround" and then I got the channels. HOWEVER, it still doesn't say<br>that it's truly decoding an AC3 signal.<br><br>I think this might be a bug in the format of the signal that myth is
<br>passing. How can we troubleshoot this?<br><br>Thanks!<br>Matt</blockquote><div><br><br>I've found that setting Myth to output to ALSA:spdif made it work on my system. Using other outputs caused trouble for me.<br><br>
Brian<br> <br></div><br></div><br>