[mythtv-users] GeForce 6150, SPDIF, digital passthru - Success!

[Jason]

excellent! Thank you both,  looks like I have a new project for this
weekend!

Jason
The place where you made your stand never mattered,
only that you were there... and still on your feet



Chad wrote:
> On 10/4/06, Kevin Mori <kmori.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> yes
>> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 21:43 -0500, Jason wrote:
>>     
>>> I've never used the SPDIF on my receiver, so this is a very uneducated
>>> question,  but if I switch to the spdif output of my soundcard, could I
>>> use that as my audio out for all of my content, even if it doesn't have
>>> AC3 encoding?   MP3s and what not?  It would be nice to have one,
>>> hi-fidelity audio out into my receiver and not have to switch inputs
>>> between DVDs and OTA TV.
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>       
>
>
> With a little more information and a space between your response:
> yes.  ;)
>
> Some people report having to use a fancy .asoundrc to get this to
> work.  However, if you are talking about using the SPDIF output
> onboard something like the Asus M2NPV-VM, then yes, and you don't have
> to use any special asoundrc files.  Having AC3 passthrough checked
> will send Dolby Digital (DD) to your reciever when the stream contains
> an identifiable AC3 track (as in an HDTV presentation such as CSI);
> when it does not (as in the case where you record an analog show using
> something like a PVR-x50), analog audio is passed digitally over your
> SPDIF output to your receiver which then (assuming you have comsumer
> level equipment :D ) converts the audio to analog and out to your
> speakers.  The same holds true for your videos and mp3's, although
> mp3s are (again sometimes) reported to play at faster/slower speeds if
> they are not 48000 (it seems most typically they are 44100 IIRC).  As
> usual, I haven't noticed this either using a basically standard
> install of Gentoo, and/or FC5.
>
> -Chad
>
>