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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=875234621-09052006>Try
ALSA:default and set up your .asoundrc file for the proper device alias. Plays
all formats I have tried so far on the spdif output. With AC3 passthru on you
should be able to play AC3 streams too.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>James D<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 09, 2006 5:03
PM<BR><B>To:</B> mythtv-users@mythtv.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [mythtv-users] AC3
digital audio output from live tv<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Ok, so how do you get audio when watching ATSC live tv?</DIV>
<DIV>my understanding is all ATSC audio is AC3 encoded, so I've checked to
pass AC3 through and I have my myth box connected to my home theather receiver
via SPDIF. when I play videos that have AC3 audio in MythVideo (with mplayer
-ao alsa:device=spdif) it works fine. This would make me think it's not
capturing the audio, but I'm not so sure as when I first set it up I had left
the audio device as /dev/dsp. I plugged headphones in to analog line out for
shits and grins while in live tv and i heard a bunch of static noise which I'd
guess is the encoded AC3 trying to be played back as normal audio, so I think
if I can just get the data to go to my SPDIF out instead it'd work, but I
tried changing the audio device to ALSA:spdif and got silence from my home
theater as well as the line out.</DIV>
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<DIV>any help would be appreciated</DIV>
<DIV>btw, my tuner is DViCo Fusion HDTV Lite. it has a connector to the
motherboard CD-audio-in, but my understanding is this is only for analog
audio.</DIV>
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