[mythtv-users] How to get Myth Music to play thru SPDIF output? (SVN trunk as of 9/9)

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/09/2007 06:42 PM, William Munson wrote:
> I am usually pretty good at getting myth to behave itself however trying 
> to get myth music to play out the digital port has stumped me. First 
> off, I am running trunk SVN and its current as of today so I have the 
> new interface (love it!)
>
> I can get it to play out the standard audio output jack using /dev/dsp 
> however my usual ALSA:spdif does not work. I am running a 2.6.22.1-32 
> kernel so alsa is built into the kernel and I am not running a .asoundrc 
> file.
>   

Which is the problem since your sound card (like almost all) requires
48kHz audio for digital output.  You need a .asoundrc to do rate
conversion of your 44.1kHz CDA/MP3's/Ogg's.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound#Setting_up_ALSA.27s_.asoundrc.2C_Properly

Mike