[mythtv-users] which sound card to get?

[Raphael Pooser]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Raphael Pooser wrote:
>   
>> Good to hear that this one works.  If retrying my old Live Value with 
>> higher PCI latency doesn't do the trick, I'll grab one of these.  That's 
>> still going to be cheaper than getting an old refurbished audigy.  Do 
>> you guys use this one with ALSA, or do you use this with the default in 
>> mythtv which is /dev/dsp?  (I don't believe that /dev/dsp points to 
>> ALSA:default; I think it is actually OSS emulation if you're using ALSA 
>> - not sure).  Thanks for the suggestions.
>>   
>>     
> I use it with ALSA on Fedora Core.  It's recognized by the OS, all I had 
> to do was go into alsamixer, enable the SPDIF port, and that's it.  I 
> don't have a .asoundrc file or anything.  My Myth devices is ALSA:spdif 
> or ALSA:default (can't remember which).
>
> Kevin
>
>   

Thanks Jessie and Kevin,
This is promising information.  It shows I'm still in the linux sound 
stone age.  There are plenty of things I can do now to try and fix this.
Raphael