[mythtv-users] S/PDIF sound problems

[James Satterfield]

It's my understanding that if you're using pvr350 out, the audio only comes 
from the pvr. AFAIK, what you want cannot be done.

James.


David <myth at dgreaves.com> wrote: 
>I'm trying to get s/pdif to work with myth.
>I'm using an onboard Via8233
>
>It works fine with mplayer but not myth.
>Myth is built with alsa support - I've currently (temporarily) disabled 
>oss-emulation in the kernel too.
>
>I've used ALSA:mixed-digital (from Michael Dean's config) and it works 
>very nicely with mplayer
>  mplayer -ao alsa1x:mixed-digital my.mp3
>gives nice clear properly timed s/pdif output.
>
>I'm using a PVR350 and I feed the audio output back into the soundcard's 
>line in.
>Now I expected myth to be listening to the line in (marked as capture in 
>alsamixer) and outputting it via pcm to the spdif.
>But it's not.
>
>Instead I can only hear myths output when I unmute the line-in - and of 
>course then I'm getting analog playback.
>
>It seems like Myth is only generating sound via the PVR and isn't then 
>playing back line-in (at which point I would need to mute line-in to 
>avoid 'echo')
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>David
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