[mythtv-users] SPDIF surround broken in trunk [SOLVED]

[Greg Woods]

On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 16:21 +1000, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:

> 
> Sorry, but if you select an ALSA device, unless that device is
> reported as "Analog" (either in the name or description) then AC3 and
> DTS checkbox *will* appear.

Then the system must think that all my devices are analog, even IEC958,
because I do not see these checkboxes for any device. 

> 
> What does the line at the bottom states when you select that particular device

First I press the scan for audio devices bar, and this appears in the
terminal that I am running mythfrontend from (I am running it as root):

2010-07-14 14:06:14.425 ALSA, Error: snd_pcm_info_get_card: Operation
not permitted

If I select ALSA:default, at the bottom it says:

Device supports up to 5.1 (AC3, DTS)

But there are no checkboxes for AC3 or DTS. I can select 5.1 under
Speaker Configuration, and if I then set up a separate digital output
and select IEC958, it works.


> 
> If you select IEC958, you *will* get the AC3 or DTS checkbox to show,
> I can't imagine any circumstances where this wouldn't be true

But I tell you again: on my system these checkboxes do not appear. At
the bottom it says:

C-MEDIA CMI8788, Analog
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Output
Device supports up to 2.0

...and of course I can't select anything but Stereo under Speaker
Configuration.



> I'd like to see a screen capture if you don't see them, so I can fix
> the bug if any

If this description isn't enough, I'll try to get one, I'll just have to
figure out how to do that (it's some key press that I can't remember).

> What svn revision are you running?


# svn info
Path: .
URL: http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk
Repository Root: http://svn.mythtv.org/svn
Repository UUID: 7dbf422c-18fa-0310-86e9-fd20926502f2
Revision: 25327
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: nigel
Last Changed Rev: 25326
Last Changed Date: 2010-07-10 06:59:09 -0600 (Sat, 10 Jul 2010)

> Forgot to add, that you have to press on the rescan audio device
> button

Yes, I did that. If I don't do that, then ALSA:default is all I see.

--Greg