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

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