I tried it last night, but ALSA:spdif and ALSA:iec958 gives errors that the device cannot be found.<br><br>aplay -D spdif /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Error.wav<br>ALSA lib confmisc.c:1107:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition '
cards.HDA-Intel.pcm.iec958.2:CARD=0,AES0=4,AES1=130,AES2=0,AES3=2'<br>ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory<br>ALSA lib conf.c:3961:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
<br>ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM spdif<br>aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such file or directory<br><br>Strange.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.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;">
On 07/18/2006 06:49 PM, Nick wrote:<br><br>>On 18/07/06, wouter lists <<a href="mailto:wouter.lists@gmail.com">wouter.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>>>I have a weird problem. I have a X86_64 mythtv setup connected to an
<br>>>external amplifier via spdif. The line-up is 5.1.<br>>><br>>>If I use mplayer and play a mp3 file, I have sound on all my loudspeakers.<br>>><br>>>If I open livetv, I only get sound in the front speaker. If I open the
<br>>>recorded file in mplayer, I only get sound in the front speaker.<br>>><br>>>I have used the example file in the mythtv documentation to get<br>>>/etc/asound.conf. I'm now outputting to digital-hw.
<br>>><br><br>I hope to "digital" (digital-hw is /not/ for direct use). See the<br>updated comments on the ALSA config file at<br><a href="http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DigitalSoundHowTo#Setting_up_ALSA.27s_.asoundrc.2C_Properly">
http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DigitalSoundHowTo#Setting_up_ALSA.27s_.asoundrc.2C_Properly</a><br>.<br><br>>> I tried already the<br>>>other settings, but that doesn't make any difference.<br>>><br>>>
<br>><br>>What does your external amplfier describe the incoming audio signal<br>>from MythTV as?<br>><br>>If you use ALSA:spdif or ALSA:iec958 as your MythTV playback device<br>>(and have AC3 passthrough enabled) does this improve things for
<br>>LiveTV/recordings?<br>><br><br>Yeah, it looks like the digital and mixed-digital configurations need<br>updating to work with AC-3 and DTS. I'll probably get to that in<br>Sep/Oct timeframe. Until then, "ALSA:iec958" should work (but may break
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