[mythtv-users] SPDIF output

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Nov 2, 2003, at 22:33, Gary Raposo wrote:

> Excellent!  This fixed my problem too!
>
> Jarod: we were talking about this in the "Lost audio on Pundit SPDIF 
> audio out." thread.

I thought of your situation when I read Jared's message, but hadn't yet 
dug back through my mailbox to tack on a message on that thread. Goofy 
that you have to put the slider all the way to zero to work, but I 
*knew* it had to be software. ;p

Glad to hear your SPDIF is back in business!

--Jarod


> At 03:11 am 02/11/2003, you wrote:
>
> Yay!  I fixed it, all I had to do was turn the volume of the "IEC958 
> Playback AC97-SPSA" mixer item down to zero and it worked!  :)
>  
> - Jared
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Jared Luxenberg
>
> To: Discussion about mythtv
>
> Sent:Sunday, November 02, 2003 2:18 AM
>
> Subject:[mythtv-users] SPDIF output
>
>
> I have a VIA VT8233 sound card built into my VIA KM400 motherboard. It 
> has a SPDIF output port that I'd like to use. I am using version 
> 0.9.8-13 of the ALSA driver (snd-via82xx) that is packaged by ATrpms. 
> If I try this:
>
> mplayer -ac hwac3 -ao alsa9 -vo null /var/vids/test.vob
>
>  
> then it outputs the ac3 encoded audio track of the VOB file to the 
> receiver through the SPDIF output.  This also works:
>
> aplay -Dplug:spdif /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav
>
>  
> However, watching live TV or playing back recordings in MythTV 
> produces no sound on the SPDIF output (it does produce sound on the 
> analog output).  How can I get all sounds to play through the SPDIF 
> output?

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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