Thank you very much for the help. But, still no workee.<br><br>On 9/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott</b> <<a href="mailto:list-mythtv@bluecamel.eml.cc">list-mythtv@bluecamel.eml.cc</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>On Sep 30, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Richard Krehbiel wrote:<br><br>> I'm building a mythtv system now (about as slowly as anyone
<br>> possibly can), and I'm stumped on the S/PDIF problem.<br>><br>> I have an MSI K9NGM2-FID - Socket AM2, nVidia GeForce 6150, and I'm<br>> using on-board sound with Intel HDA drivers (snd-intel-8x0). I<br>
> installed Fedora Core 5, current updates. I've got a coax from my<br>> S/PDIF out to my Onkyo 304, and Onkyo set to consume coax. (It<br>> works from an actual DVD player.)<br><br>Find a .wav file on your system. Check /usr/share/sounds/alsa/ and
<br>look for something like "Front_Left.wav". Then try "aplay -D spdif /<br>usr/share/sounds/asla/Front_Left.wav" and see if you get any output<br>at all.</blockquote><div><br>It says: "aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such file or directory". aplay -v says nothing more.
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> I haven't done any alsa configuration. I looked into it, but<br>> frankly alsa is impenetrable (is there a good doc? I haven't seen
<br>> one) - plus I've read comments saying it should work out of the box.<br><br>At the very least run "alsamixer" and make sure that your PCM is<br>unmuted and set to a reasonable volume. Also look for an iec958
<br>device and make sure it is unmuted as well.</blockquote><div><br>PCM doesn't look "mute-able." Pressing M with PCM selected does nothing.<br><br>Oh - IEC958 *was* muted.<br><br>Sadly, aplay Left_Front.wav still says "aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such file or directory".
<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> I've got a DVD in right now. I'll play it:<br>> mplayer -v -ao alsa -afm hwac3 -monitoraspect 16:9 -dvd-device /dev/
<br>> cdrom dvd://1<br><br>Try this mplayer command again after you have:<br><br>1) Run alsamixer as directed above<br>2) Verified that aplay can generate some sounds for you<br><br>If these steps don't help you post the output for the commands "aplay
<br>-l" and "aplay -L".</blockquote><div><br><br> aplay -l<br>**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****<br>card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
<br>card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 2: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br><br>aplay -L<br>PCM list:<br>hw {<br> @args.0 CARD<br> @args.1 DEV<br> @
args.2 SUBDEV<br> @args.CARD {<br> type string<br> default {<br> @func getenv<br> vars {<br> 0 ALSA_PCM_CARD
<br> 1 ALSA_CARD<br> }<br> default {<br> @func refer<br> name 'defaults.pcm.card'<br>
}<br> }<br> }<br> @args.DEV {<br> type integer<br> default {<br> @func igetenv<br> vars {<br>
0 ALSA_PCM_DEVICE<br> }<br> default {<br> @func refer<br> name 'defaults.pcm.device
'<br> }<br> }<br> }<br> @args.SUBDEV {<br> type integer<br> default {<br> @func refer<br> name '
defaults.pcm.subdevice'<br> }<br> }<br> type hw<br> card $CARD<br> device $DEV<br> subdevice $SUBDEV<br>}<br>plughw {<br> @args.0 CARD<br> @args.1 DEV<br> @
args.2 SUBDEV<br> @args.CARD {<br> type string<br> default {<br> @func getenv<br> vars {<br> 0 ALSA_PCM_CARD
<br> 1 ALSA_CARD<br> }<br> default {<br> @func refer<br> name 'defaults.pcm.card'<br>
}<br> }<br> }<br> @args.DEV {<br> type integer<br> default {<br> @func igetenv<br> vars {<br>
0 ALSA_PCM_DEVICE<br> }<br> default {<br> @func refer<br> name 'defaults.pcm.device
'<br> }<br> }<br> }<br> @args.SUBDEV {<br> type integer<br> default {<br> @func refer<br> name '
defaults.pcm.subdevice'<br> }<br> }<br> type plug<br> slave.pcm {<br> type hw<br> card $CARD<br> device $DEV<br> subdevice $SUBDEV
<br> }<br>}<br>plug {<br> @args.0 SLAVE<br> @args.SLAVE {<br> type string<br> }<br> type plug<br> slave.pcm $SLAVE<br>}<br>shm {<br> @args.0 SOCKET<br> @
args.1 PCM<br> @args.SOCKET {<br> type string<br> }<br> @args.PCM {<br> type string<br> }<br> type shm<br> server $SOCKET<br> pcm $PCM<br>}<br>
tee {<br> @args.0 SLAVE<br> @args.1 FILE<br> @args.2 FORMAT<br> @args.SLAVE {<br> type string<br> }<br> @args.FILE {<br> type string<br> }<br>
@args.FORMAT {<br> type string<br> default raw<br> }<br> type file<br> slave.pcm $SLAVE<br> file $FILE<br> format $FORMAT<br>}<br>file {<br> @
args.0 FILE<br> @args.1 FORMAT<br> @args.FILE {<br> type string<br> }<br> @args.FORMAT {<br> type string<br> default raw<br> }<br> type file
<br> slave.pcm null<br> file $FILE<br> format $FORMAT<br>}<br>null {<br> type null<br>}<br>cards 'cards.pcm'<br>front 'cards.pcm.front'<br>rear 'cards.pcm.rear'<br>center_lfe 'cards.pcm.center_lfe
'<br>side 'cards.pcm.side'<br>surround40 'cards.pcm.surround40'<br>surround41 'cards.pcm.surround41'<br>surround50 'cards.pcm.surround50'<br>surround51 'cards.pcm.surround51'<br>surround71 'cards.pcm.surround71'<br>iec958 '
cards.pcm.iec958'<br>spdif 'cards.pcm.iec958'<br>modem 'cards.pcm.modem'<br>phoneline 'cards.pcm.phoneline'<br>dmix 'cards.pcm.dmix'<br>dsnoop 'cards.pcm.dsnoop'<br>default {<br> type hw<br> card 0<br> device 0
<br>}<br><br></div></div><br>