sön 2005-12-18 klockan 00:55 +0100 skrev Marius Schrecker: > > I might suggest that all alsa utilities, alsactl, and everything else is > > NOT required > > to use digital out with MythTV. I'm using MythTV 0.18.1 on Gentoo and I > > only > > have the necessary alsa drivers compiled in the kernel. I've never used > > alsamixer > > or alsactl, or installed/emerged alsa-utils, alsamixer, aplay, or anything > > else > > alsa related. I'm not starting any alsa services during startup. The only > > thing I did is: > > > > Enable alsa support and driver in the kernel. > > Put .asoundrc in my home directory. > > Set MythTV as follows: > > -Enable AC3 > > -Device = "ALSA:digital" > > -Mixer = "digital" > > > > and that's it. I also have all the other mythplugins working by setting > > their device > > to ALSA:digital. Is my setup unique, or are people doing more than need to > > to get digital audio working? > > > > The simpler the better. I don't care how little is installed as long as I > can get digital output, so far no go, everything looks as if it should be > working, just no sound :( > > I'd love to know how to test spdiff out as simply as possible, if I can > bypass aplay then so much the better! > Can I stream a 48KHz file straight to spdiff out? > > Marius > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
I have a similar setup as above and just did aplay somesoundfile.wav and it went out the right way(through spdif into SurroundrReciever) A lot of hours compiling an googling felt very worthwhile at that point. Now if only I could get Xine to output to spdif instead of crashing... Good luck! Johan
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