[mythtv-users] Alsa SPDIF NForce4

[Timothy Bish]

> 
> After having tried previously and given up, I gave onboard S/PDIF another
> shot
> last night.  I updated the kernel to the latest and greatest and went over
> some
> of the other messages in this thread.
> 
> Try the following:
> 
> 1) Delete /etc/asound.conf, if present...you don't need it.
> 2) In alsamixer, make sure these settings are as follows:
>    IEC958: unmuted
>    IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA: 0%
>    IEC958 Playback Source: PCM
>    PCM: unmuted (level shouldn't matter, but mine is at 77%)
>    Master: unmuted (level shouldn't matter, but mine is at 77%)
> 3) Test PCM audio:
>    aplay /dev/urandom
>    You should get white noise.
> 4) Test AC3 passthrough:
>    mplayer -ao alsa -ac hwac3, dvd://

I tried all this, and it worked.  I had passthrough with xine, life was
good, but then I restart the machine and now, xine won't do passthrough
anymore and MythMusic can't seem to open the dev/dsp or dev/dsp1.  

So close.

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Timothy A. Bish