<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">That article got it working. The card is around $100 which is cheap for SPDIF and seems to work well.<div>I am running CentOS 5.1 with plus kernel to enable firewire.</div><div><br><div><div>On 7-Feb-08, at 7:09 AM, Josh wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 7, 2008 2:00 AM, Big Wave Dave <<a href="mailto:bigwavedave@gmail.com">bigwavedave@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Feb 6, 2008 10:58 PM, Big Wave Dave <<a href="mailto:bigwavedave@gmail.com">bigwavedave@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Feb 6, 2008 4:43 PM, Mark Hutchinson <<a href="mailto:mark@onnow.net">mark@onnow.net</a>> wrote:<br> > > Beating my head against the wall here.<br>> > C-Media based card with SPDIF out.<br>> > Just wanting to get this working.<br>> ><br>> > In Mythfrontend, audio setup, what is my device?<br> > ><br>> > Here is some output. I am not sure how to test it from command line.<br>> > I have the SPDIF connected to some speakers with the optical, but cant<br>> > get any sound out.<br>> ><br> > > aplay -L<br>> ><br>> > 00-02: CMI8738-MC8 : C-Media PCI IEC958 : playback 1 : capture 1<br>> > 00-01: CMI8738-MC8 : C-Media PCI 2nd DAC : playback 1<br>> > 00-00: CMI8738-MC8 : C-Media PCI DAC/ADC : playback 1 : capture 1<br> > > [root@markmythhd ~]# aplay -L<br>> > default:CARD=CMI8738MC8<br>> > C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC8, C-Media PCI IEC958<br>> > Default Audio Device<br>> > front:CARD=CMI8738MC8,DEV=0<br> > > C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC8, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC<br>> > Front speakers<br>> > iec958:CARD=CMI8738MC8,DEV=0<br>> > C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC8, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC<br>> > IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output<br> > > null<br>> > Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)<br>> ><br>> I would recommend looking at:<br>> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound_with_AC3_and_SPDIF" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound_with_AC3_and_SPDIF</a><br> > and<br>> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound</a><br>><br>> Dave<br>><br>> ----------------------------------------------<br> > <a href="http://www.techsneeze.com" target="_blank">http://www.techsneeze.com</a><br>><br><br></div></div>Also....<br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Asoundrc_CMI8738-MC6" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Asoundrc_CMI8738-MC6</a><br> <br>Best of luck!<br><font color="#888888"><br>Dave<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>Those articles are good reference... check them out. What distro are you running?<br> <br>I recently upgraded one of my frontends to Fedora 8 and I had to completely remove PulseAudio so I could get my C-Media SPDIF out to work.<br><br>Josh<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>