Tom Horsley wrote: > Clemens Ladisch wrote: >> Don't use numbers but names. > > I spent several hours once trying to get: > > mplayer -vo gl_nosw -ao alsa:device=hw=0.1 -ac hwdts,hwac3, > > to use a name instead of the hw=0 stuff and nothing I tried > was able to send sound out the optical output that > device talks to. I've actually never seen an example > anywhere on the web that describes exactly how to use > a name instead of a number showing exactly what the > number looks like first and exactly how to determine > how to change that specific number into a name given > the info in aplay -l or -L, etc.
The card number (0) can be replaced with the card ID, which is the string in square brackets in /proc/asound/cards. In your case, it's probably "PCH" or "HDMI". Regards, Clemens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
