Sorry about formatting issues from my webmail:<br /><br />On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 09:29 CEST, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard@gmail.com> wrote:<br /> <blockquote>On 27 August 2013 17:17, Marius Schrecker wrote:<br />><br /><br />> I have been outputting sound from myth through spdif (toslink) from my<br />> soundcard, but the new TV does some image processing, which can cause sync<br />> issues and these are solved by routing the sound through the tv using hdmi<br />> out from mythtv.<br /><br />can't you just adjust the sync instead?</blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Well I can, but as the video processing is handled by the TV, I find that I have to keep adjusting the mythtv sync to keep it right. The TV "just does it".</span></blockquote><blockquote><br />><br />> So far so good. BUT. I also have amopidy server running there and want to be<br />> able to route the sound directly ove
r soundcard-spdif to my digital<br />> decoder/amp when NOT using mythtv as the source.<br />><br />> Is the one digital output only rule imposed by mythtv, or is this a<br />> limitation of ALSA (without playing around)?<br /><br />outputing to multiple devices is usually done via a muxer. you can't<br />mux digital audio without first decoding it...<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sorry I wasn't clear. What I want is to output mopidy to soundcard spdif ONLY, and mythtv to hdmi ONLY., rarther than to both devices simultaneously.</span><br /><br />the other issue is that all devices have different latencies.. so<br />outputting to multiple device is extremely hard to handle properly...<br />which is the primary reason I've never implemented it<br />_______________________________________________<br />mythtv-users mailing list<br />mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br />http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</bl
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