That is tremendous news, after trying this without any luck for more than 6 months I'm delighted to here it can be done. I am just re-staging the frontend with Fedora to see if I can achieve the same results.
Could you tell me what sort of source material you are playing through MythVideo. Is it a rip'd DVD or DIVX or something? I had been concentrating on trying to get results with something like Xine or Mplayer from a DVD, but I'm more than happy to go via MythVideo. Will let you know how it goes Scott On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 22:50 +0100, Martin Ebourne wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:43:05 +0100, Scott White wrote: > > Does anybody know of a USB soundcard for Linux that will allow one to > > watch movies with Dolby Digital passed digitally to a surround sound > > amplifier? (Happy to jump through any hoops). I believe they call this > > "digital pass through" > > I have one of these: > Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External Sound Card > > This is the exact one, here: > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009AHV8U/ref=pd_sr_ec_ir_ce/202-9112771-6976659 > > It's a USB sound card with a free remote control (quite nice and very > small, shirt pocket sized - I use it with a serial receiver). > > I have it plugged into a Cyrus AV8 via the optical out. It works > perfectly, out of the box with no effort as well. I get stereo and > Dolby Digital through it from MythTV and stereo from mpd. > > I've even modified MythTV to pass DTS through it, a patch I'll tidy up and > submit next month. > > My system is FC3, myth 18.1, and I set the audio output device to > 'ALSA:hw:1'. Also tick the box for AC3 output. No .asoundrc file (or > whatever it's called) needed. I use the 'Internal' player for mythvideo. > > Cheers, > > Martin. > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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