<br />On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 20:53 CEST, John Morris <jmorris@beau.org> wrote:<br /> <blockquote>On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 13:43 +0200, Marius Schrecker wrote:<br /><br />> Thanks very much. I think my confusion was that Alsa might set one<br />> default device, that would be picked up by both.<br /><br />You are right. There pretty much has to be one 'default' device; its<br />right there in the definition of 'default. :) But Myth isn't limited<br />to that since you can specify any alsa device you want in the Myth<br />setup. And most other software is also capable of being configured to<br />use a different output device, either through its graphical interface, a<br />config file or a command line option. So one or the other will need to<br />be manually adjusted. For your use I'd recommend you default alsa to<br />the optical port and manually override Myth to use the hdmi.<br /><br />But I was hoping this thread would have turned up
a simple way to output<br />to multiple devices. I'd also like to do it but couldn't see any<br />non-trivial way to get it. At some point I'd like to use my receiver's<br />2nd zone but it won't route any of the digital inputs, only analog<br />inputs. That isn't too bad a restriction since most AV gear output both<br />at the same time... but a big problem with any PC based AV setup. I'd<br />mostly just be wanting to use MythMusic in another room so sync isn't an<br />issue. But I have twiddled in the internals of sound on Linux to know<br />any clueless tinkering I try would be more likely to just destabilize an<br />otherwise working sound setup.<br /> </blockquote>Good luck with your problem! There's no way you could split the digital signal post-pc??<br /><br />I haven't followed the whole thread in detail so not completely sure what you're trying to do, but if it's just a matter of outputting to two zones simultani
ously, you'd probabløy be better off with a hdmi or toslink splitter/matrix than fiddling around in Linux.<br /><br />Tyhanks very much for your advice. yes. Mopidy does like best to use the default device, so I do agree that it would be best to leave that as it is and point MythTV at the hdmi output.<br /><br />Off-topic side question: Does anyopne have any direct comparisons of sound quality from onboard spdif ports using coax contra toslink? I'm guessing the onboard digital signal isn't the best there is anyway, and I don't want to degrade it even further by uising the wrong medium. Traditionally toslink is advised against by audiophiles because it's prone to adding jitter, but then Spotify is hardly audiophile anyway.<br /><br />--Marius--<br /><br />Cheers!<br /><br />--Marius--<br /><br />--Marius--<br /><br /><br /><br />