Re: [mythtv-users] USB Soundcard with SPIDF digital pass through?
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 14:43 +0100, Scott White wrote: Background, I have been unable to get the SPIDF output on my Shuttle Zen to work and the analogue sound quality is pretty rubbish. I've got S/PDIF output working fine on my Shuttle SN41G2. I used the .asoundrc from here http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo , and everything except MythMusic is working fine (LiveTV, recordings, video via xine and mplayer). I use ALSA:dmix-digital as my audio device (don't worry if you can't select it, just type it in). I basically followed Jarod's guide. -- Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] USB Soundcard with SPIDF digital pass through?
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 14:43 +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 like the Xitel Pro HiFi Link: http://www.xitel.com/product_phfl.htm I had it working with Gentoo and FC3 at one point. Details here: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2640 hth, dan signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] USB Soundcard with SPIDF digital pass through?
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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] USB Soundcard with SPIDF digital pass through?
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:01:27 +0100, Scott White wrote: 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. I use mythvideo primarily for two things - shows recorded by myth from a dvb card and moved out of watch recordings and perfect rips from my dvds. Both are mpeg2. I've also watched mpeg1 stuff through it ok. I've not tried anything more fancy since I haven't had cause. Cheers, Martin. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] USB Soundcard with SPIDF digital pass through?
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 Background, I have been unable to get the SPIDF output on my Shuttle Zen to work and the analogue sound quality is pretty rubbish. I am currently running with a Creative Soundblaster USB, (although I have tried others), which works great with stereo through the SPIDF to my surround sound amp, but I can not get digital multi-channel format out of it. As a result I use Myth for everything but watching movies and still have to switch to the old faithful DVD player. I can get great results with a PCI soundblaster card but my one PCI slot is unfortunately used by a PVR-250 card. I have also tried changing the PVR-250 for a WinPVR2 USB to free up the PCI slot but the S-Video capture does not work and the composite performance is not good enough for a large screen TV. I am able to make all these things work in Windows including my various soundcards, but where's the fun in that? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] USB Soundcard with SPIDF digital pass through?
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
