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I've never played a CD on Myth so I can't safely assume that it would
work. The way I tested my setup was to use XMMS to play a shoutcast
stream. If you do that, remember that you have to stop and restart the
stream when you change sound configuration options in XMMS.<br>
<br>
Jesse.<br>
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Razza wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="781183520-17122006">Hmmmm
tried to play a cd (outside Myth) with both "0" and "1" in .asoundrc
and still no joy :o(</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="781183520-17122006">Any
other suggestions?</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="781183520-17122006"></span></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="781183520-17122006">Regards,</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="781183520-17122006">Ray</span></font></div>
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lang="en-us"><span class="625572519-17122006"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">Jesse,</font></span></div>
<div><span class="625572519-17122006"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2"># cat /proc/asound/devices yields - </font></span></div>
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<div><span class="625572519-17122006"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">[root@MythLounge .mythtv]# cat
/proc/asound/devices<br>
2: : timer<br>
3: : sequencer<br>
4: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback<br>
5: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture<br>
6: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback<br>
7: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture<br>
8: [ 0] : control</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="625572519-17122006"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">so I assume my .asoundrc would be -</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="625572519-17122006"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font color="#0000ff">-- BEGIN --<br>
pcm.!default {<br>
type hw<br>
card 0<br>
device 1<br>
}<br>
-- END --<span class="781183520-17122006"><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></span></font></font></font></span></div>
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face="Arial" size="2"><br>
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<div><span class="625572519-17122006"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">Regards,</font></span></div>
<div><span class="625572519-17122006"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">Ray</font></span></div>
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face="Arial" size="2"> </font></span></div>
<font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> </font>
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lang="en-us"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Jesse Dhillon<span
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This is my ~mythtv/.asoundrc:<br>
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-- BEGIN --<br>
pcm.!default {<br>
type hw<br>
card 0<br>
device 2<br>
}<br>
-- END --<br>
<br>
However, remember that this is specific to my sound card. It just
happens to be the case that ALSA identifies the SPDIF output of my card
to be device 2. This is how I found the info for the file above:<br>
<br>
$ cat /proc/asound/devices<br>
2: : timer<br>
3: [ 0- 2]: digital audio playback<br>
4: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture<br>
5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback<br>
6: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture<br>
7: [ 0] : control<br>
8: [ 1- 0]: digital audio capture<br>
9: [ 1] : control<br>
10: [ 2- 0]: digital audio capture<br>
11: [ 2] : control<br>
<br>
Notice the following line:<br>
3: [ 0- 2]: digital audio playback<br>
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I believe that this is read as device 2 on card 0. My understanding is
that sound is played on 0-0 by default, so if the default setup is not
causing audio to come out of SPDIF, check it.<br>
<br>
Jesse.<br>
<br>
<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
class="875040518-17122006">Hi all, I'm trying to get my FrontEnd to
pass all sound through the SPDIF output. I have looked for
/etc/alsa.conf and ~/.asound neither of which can be found. Can anyone
point me to a good article (excluding - <a
href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound</a>) for
the linux challenged?! </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
class="875040518-17122006">Regards,</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
class="875040518-17122006">Ray</span></font></div>
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