[mythtv-users] SPDIF mutes after about an hour

[Allen Edwards]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Dive Turkey <diveturkey at gmail.com> wrote:
> The SPDIF audio from my FE will mute itself at a predictable interval
> (slightly more than an hour).  I've had this problem across multiple
> upgrades and versions of mythtv and Fedora (currently running MythDora 5).
> I've worked around it in the past by writing a shell script that calls
> alsamixer from the command line to mute and unmute my iec958 output, and
> then link to the script in /etc/cron.hourly.  I was just wondering if
> anybody had ideas on what the underlying cause might be.
>
> _________

How do you have your system configured?  What passthrough device, any
ALSA config files?

Allen