[mythtv-users] Feature Request: ALSA output

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Stephen Tait wrote:

> At 16:38 25/07/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
>>
>>> well, but this just uses the ALSA OSS kernel emulation via /dev/dsp. 
>>> I am asking about native ALSA support. In the GUI there is also no 
>>> place to specify the ALSA device, only which /dev/dsp to use (same 
>>> for mixer).
>>>
>> Use the keyword ALSA: with the output device after it.  For example 
>> ALSA:spdif.  Make sure that ALSA is all capital letters.  This has 
>> come up before in the archives.
>
>
> I can't find the thread now, but it's in my archive somewhere. I was 
> under the impression that the native ALSA support in Myth wasn't at 
> 100%; you can use output via the ALSA:default doohickey just fine 
> (using it myself), but AFAICR you can't specify a mixer device other 
> than /dev/dsp or /dev/sound/dsp via ALSA-OSS emulation. I think I 
> remember a post from Isaac saying the support was "broken", so a 
> feature request is prolly the wrong idea... more like bugfixes and/or 
> additions to the docs.


Current CVS has improved ALSA support.  I was never able to get decent 
sound out of the native ALSA in Myth.   Now it works much better.