[mythtv-users] ALSA and SPDIF Out For nForce2 Motherboards

[Michael T. Dean]

Mike Denver wrote:

>Nothing special in .asoundrc
>
Good.  The plug plugin would add whole new layers of confusion.

>just the following
>pcm.intel8x0 {
>type hw
>card 0
>}
>
>ctl.intel8x0 {
>type hw
>card 0
>}
>  
>
Which means you do _not_ have a device called nforce.  (For future 
reference, you have one called "intel8x0" and by changing both 
occurences of that word in .asoundrc, you would be renaming it.).  
Therefore, we'll just to specify a hardware name.

>I tried alsa:hw0,1 and alsa:hw0,2
>  
>
In Myth, use all caps "ALSA"--i.e. ALSA:hw:0,1 .  Note also there is a 
colon between "hw" and "0,1".  Once you do that, assuming you've wired 
the S/PDIF correctly, you should hear your audio in all its digital glory.

>when I go to tv, with 0,1 video comes on but no sound, with 0,2 mythfrontend
>shuts down. With every other setting except /dev/dsp (which then works in
>analoge) the TV module hangs. I'm suppose to be putting these setting
>directly in the mythconverg database right? so that when I select general
>settings I have alsa:hw0,1 in the audiooutputdevice field right? Just
>checking.
>
>I know I'm getting close I can feel it!
>  
>
Sounds right to me, but then again, my Myth box doesn't have S/PDIF 
output, so I haven't tried it myself.