[mythtv-users] Goodbye Analog!

[Nicolas Will]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 00:33 -0700, Justin The Cynical wrote:
> Nicolas Will wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 02:31 -0700, Justin The Cynical wrote:
> >> Had to bypass the default/mixed-digital/$FOO setup in alsa to get
> one 
> >> station playing audio (it's broadcast in mono and myth/alsa
> couldn't 
> >> grok it correctly.  Piping the audio straight to the hardware
> worked)
> > 
> > Ah, I'm interested!
> > 
> > I have DVB-S and EuroNews. EuroNews broadcasts a ton of languages,
> but
> > they are all in mono.
> > 
> > My system only used ALSA:Spdif, and I guess the mono thing confuses
> > something in the chain (Myth, ALSA, my amp).
> > 
> > How do you deal with this?
> 
> Changed the output devices.
> 
> Audio output device is ALSA:Plug:iec958
> Passthrough output device is ALSA:iec958:{AES0 0x02}
> 
> These settings, as I understand it, bypasses any ALSA hardware 
> abstraction and sends the data straight to the sound card driver.
> 
> On my system, this means that if Myth is running, it takes over the 
> sound card.  Nothing outside of myth will be able to send any sound
> to 
> the card, it all goes to the bit bucket.
> 
> OF course, part of my problem may be that aplay -l reports the card as
> a 
> Dell OEM card, when I got it from a retail SB box.  I've got an older 
> card laying around to try, I've just been kinda scared to mess with
> it 
> since it is working now.  :-)

Thanks for this, I'll give it a try!

Nico