[mythtv-users] 0.25 audio output not working "correctly"

[Steven Adeff]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 April 2012 14:36, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> this is probably directly for JYA:
>> I'm upgrading my parents setup and one of their ION machines refuses
>> to play audio through Myth with ALSA:hdmi:CARD=NVidia
>
> there's no guarantee that this would be the right device to use..
>
> You would probably have one like
> ALSA:hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=7
>
>>
>> in mplayer -ao alsa:device=default works but -ao alsa:device=hdmi does not
>>
>> in 0.24 we used ALSA:hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=7 to get it to work so I tried
>> manually placing that in the database and it works.
>
>> It works, so that makes me happy, but I assume this is not how it
>> should be, so I'm throwing this out there as a possible bug.
>
> not really... there are a few hdmi codec exposed, and they all appear
> in alsa unfortunately.
>
> With 0.25, and provided you have alsa 1.0.25 and later installed (or a
> linux kernel > 3.2) ; then when you go into the audio setup and you
> are using hdmi, you can actually see what's connected to the hdmi
> output ; so it's actually quite easy to find the one that actually
> works.
>
> It will also show the capability of the device connected: TrueHD, DTS,
> AC3 etc...

ah, an older version of ALSA is on this machine! ok, that explains
that. I probably should update the version, but it works so for now
I'll let it be. thanks for the answer!


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