[mythtv] Fwd: iec958 output (not passthrough) with Alsa rate pluginproblem

[Robin Gilks]

> Robin,
>
> The pcm listed below is pretty much what you need, however depending
> on your distribution you may not even have the rate plugin.  You first
> need the libsamplerate from
>
> http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsamplerate/
>
> After installing that you need to recompile alsa-plugins, preferably
> matching the version of the rest of alsa installed (I am using
> alsa-plugins-1.0.14rc1) It should show the rate plugin being built and
> when
> installed should live in
> /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_samplerate*
[snip]

Thanks for that - I'm also running Gentoo stable, so I re-emerged
alsa-plugins with the libsamplerate USE flag set and I now have the
correct libraries. Too late to test last night so I'll report when I get
home tonight :-)

I assume that Myth will no longer be able to adjust the volume since the
audio stream won't be going through the mixer hardware of the sound chip
so I guess I'll be frigging irexec to call irsend with the correct codes
for my theatre amp when I hit the vol+/- on my MCE remote! (I already have
an IR blaster on it to turn it on/off).

Cheers

-- 
Robin Gilks