[mythtv-users] Feature Request: ALSA output

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Sun Jul 25 16:09:23 EDT 2004


Schlomo Schapiro wrote:

>Hi,
>
>well, but this just uses the ALSA OSS kernel emulation via /dev/dsp. I am 
>asking about native ALSA support. In the GUI there is also no place to 
>specify the ALSA device, only which /dev/dsp to use (same for mixer).
>
>I tried disabling the kernel OSS emulation and got an error message that 
>it cannot open /dev/dsp.
>
>The verbose logs show indeed, that it uses the OSS audio output. How would 
>I make it use ALSA instead ? There doesn't seem to be a configuration 
>option for that ...
>  
>

You have to compile with native ALSA support enabled and then use an 
ALSA device (such as "alsa:spdif") for your output device.  All this and 
more is easily discovered by a quick trip to the mailing list archives.


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