[mythtv-users] Is there a ALSA howto?

[Joel Feenstra]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 12:53 pm, John Patrick Poet wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2004, Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:
> > Is there any online guide for setting up ALSA in myth?
> >
> > I tried putting "ALSA:0" in the soundcard section and Myth said the
> > device didn't exist. I know I have two alsa cards working, so.... I
> > think this is what I used to get alsa working before. I'm using the
> > CVS as of last night. I looked through the MythTV documentation and
> > didn't find anything useful. Am I just missing something?
> >
> > (I had switched to arts but I upgraded KDE and now ARTS is broken.)
> >
> > -- Daniel
>
> I use "ALSA:iec958", but I want all my audio to go out the S/PDIF
> connector of the "first" card.  I *believe*, you can say something like:
>
> "ALSA:hw:1,4"
>
> This would tell it to use card 1 instead of 0, and device 4 instead of 0.
>
> You should be able to figure out what "device" you need by doing an
>
> aplay -l
>
> Some people have needed to get their .asoundrc file set up just right for
> it to work.
>
>
> John

Has anyone been able to get dmix + mythtv + esd + artsd to work? I couldn't 
get dmix to work with mythtv. I do have esd + artsd working, with artsd 
playing through esd.

Joel Feenstra