[mythtv-users] Anyone have spdif out through ALSA without passthrough?

[Bill Williamson]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, allen edwards
<allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com> wrote:
> If so, can you post your "asound.conf" file.
>
> I have spdif working fine with passthrough but I want to have firefox
> flash player output to spdif and I can't get it to work following this
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound.
>
> For example with the config modified as below, I still get analog sound
> out of flashplayer.
>
> pcm.!default {
>  type plug
>  slave.pcm "dmix-digital"
> }
>
> Checking my setup with "aplay -l" gives:
> and card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]
>  Subdevices: 1/1
>  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
> and asound.conf is set for:
>
> pcm.digital-hw {
>  type hw
>  card 0
>  device 1
>
> so all that looks correct to me.
>
> Thinking it might be a flashplayer issue, I unchecked passthrough in
> Myth Setup and sure enough, TV started playing through the analog ports
> and no spdif lock.  So, even though Myth is set to ALSA:default and ALSA
> default is set to digital, everything is analog.
>
> That is why I want to see a working asound.conf file.


My ubuntu 8.04 install works without any asound.conf...  Do you get
the ubuntu sounds on bootup?