<span style="font-size:13px; line-height:1.6em">On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 22:38 CEST, John Morris <jmorris@beau.org> wrote:</span><br /> <blockquote>On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 19:58 +0200, Thomas Börkel wrote:<br /><br />> Here are some example .asoundrc for output to multiple devices. I am<br />> using this, because I want to output MythTV sound to onboard analog<br />> and to HDMI at the same time.<br />><br />> http://www.vivalv.de/Linux/Tipps/Allgemein#ALSA_Audioausgabe_auf_2_Ger.C3.A4te_gleichzeitig<br />><br />> I am still no expert in this, but at least I got it working like I want.<br /><br />Hmm. That might do the job. Looks like I'd have to do the 5.1 audio<br />decode in software on the Myth side instead of just passing it through<br />to the amp. Wonder if there is a way to have Myth send multi-channel<br />audio to one alsa device and two channel to another.... I see config<br />options for PassThruDeviceOverride and PassTh
ruOutputDevice, if those do<br />what they sound like they do I just might be in luck. Looks like the<br />next weekend I don't have house full of grandkids I'll be tinkering.</blockquote><br />If that doesn't work you could always get a cheap, Chinese decoder to do your dac and downmix from the split digital and pass on the 2 channel analog signal from there ;-)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.formosa-audio.com/AD-300.htm">This unit</a> is very flexible. You can output just about any surround signal to any combination of speakers (power amps not included) and it automatically downmixes<br />(they're identical to the old <a href="www.klipsch.com/promedia-dd-5-1/details">Klipsch promedia dd 5.1</a> ).<br /><br />The only trouble is that I haven't found a retail output for them, so you'd have to be a business to ask them to send a sample.<br /><br />My dd 5.1 just fell apart, and I've replaced it with a slightly sonically superior, but
far less flexible unit.<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />Marius<br />