[mythtv-users] Digital sound via optical spdif, slow after seeking

Willy Boyd willyboyd at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 22:42:06 UTC 2006


On 10/25/06, Willy Boyd <willyboyd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/25/06, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Do you get the same behaviour if you play the recording in xine or
> > mplayer and skip forwards/backwards, when using the USB S/PDIF output?
> > This can at least help rule out MythTV if the issue persists with
> > other media players.
> >
>
> Wow, what a good idea.  I'm kinda sad I totally didn't think to do
> that  before posting.
>
> Anyway, skipping works like a charm with MPlayer.  So that basically
> narrows it down to 2 things:  either Myth, OR the fact that I'm using
> OSS emulation under Myth (I chose /dev/dsp1 because I didn't know how
> to put in my alsa-named card... which I aliased as "turtle" in my
> asoundrc).  I guess that will be my next step, trying it as pure ALSA
> support in Myth.  This is really great though -- that means the
> hardware is just fine!
>

Got it all fixed up!  It was the OSS emulation on the ALSA drivers.  I
didn't realize that drop down for audio device in the frontend
actually accepted typed-in values.  I set it to "ALSA:turtle" (that
being my second soundcard's alias), and the skipping works great with
no delay!

- Willy


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