[mythtv-users] Digital Audio on Intel

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Dave Day wrote:

> I am trying to get digital audio working to my 5:1 amplifier via coaxial spdif on mythtv-0-24-fixes in Gentoo testing (~x86).
>
> Analog stereo audio works great.
>
> Digital audio works fine for mplayer, aplay, etc.
>
> In myth I get long pauses separated by short bursts of audio.

Out of your 5.1 receiver? When playing >2 channel audio? If so, sounds like
you're sending PCM over the coax S/PDIF. It's not got enough bandwidth for
>2 channels of PCM, so audio should be sent compressed (i.e. raw Dolby
Digital aka AC3, or DTS).

> I am wondering if any one out there has the iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 device working in MythTV-0-24???

Yes, but not using it like that.

> I have spent a good bit of time on this and tried lots of combinations in the configuration page with no good effect.

It's very fiddly.

> Should I be able to get this to work?

See my post last night
<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/468161#468161> and come
back to the list when you get it working, or if you get stuck.

> Dave

Best Regards,
Alex