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frames available was way different from running directly to hardware.  Using
this value to subtract from "avail" in libmyth/audiooutputalsa.cpp at line
286 fixed the problem with mythmusic.

Hope this helps.


On Jan 16 2007, Robin Gilks wrote:

>
>>
>>
>> Not having the rate conversion would certianly be desirable, however it 
>> is not possible for everyone. In my case I am using the .asoundrc and 
>> the alsa rate plugin to create a high quality rate conversion and the 
>> sound is very good. i.e.
>>
>> pcm.hq48k {
>>      type rate
>>      slave.pcm "iec958"
>>      slave.rate 48000
>>      converter "samplerate_best"
>> }
>>
>> This is easy enough to do, that providing instructions on how to setup in
>> the wiki is probably sufficient. If there were a way to determine by
>> probing the hardware that a rate conversion was required then I would
>> recommend it being automatic and in myth, however there are also other
>> reasons beyond rate to setup local pcm's. I wouldn't mind updating the
>> wiking on this as soon as he flow control issue is solved. Now if I could
>> just figure out how to get alsa to map a OSS emulated /dev/pcm to an
>> arbrary plugin pcm instead of just mapping to hardware pcms. Some of the
>> software still likes to use oss devices.
>
>I've been trying to get my head round this for a while - I'd like
>MythMusic and videos to go out the spdif connector on my SP13000. I'm
>having problems identifying the digital port on the VIA982xx within the
>.asoundrc file. Passthrough works fine to the port certainly works.
>
>Could someone post an alsa config file that *ISN'T* a generic one (as per
>the wiki) that just does the pcm to spdif rate change/routing that I can
>play with?
>
>Please?
>
>Cheers
>
>

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Lawrence Freil
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