[mythtv-users] Myth CVS + Alsa + S/PDIF

John Sturgeon john at sturgeonfamily.com
Fri May 14 17:40:05 EDT 2004


James Armstrong wrote:

>
> I am getting frustrated now. I have a big noisy backend in my living 
> room because it is the only thing I can watch recorded shows on. I 
> built a frontend using the MSI 865. I just got one of two things 
> working tonight that I needed before I can move the backend and start 
> using the frontend. I was tired of waiting for interlace with NVidia 
> so I bought a cheap SIS 315 card and had 1920x1080i working in about 
> 10 minutes. Now all I need is SPDIF to work. I can use mplayer and -ao 
> alsa1x:spdif and it works great. Myth still does not work with SPDIF. 
> I just get audio out the headset. My question is, is anyone really 
> looking into this or should I get another Audigy card that I know 
> works with SPDIF. The frontend is running the latest CVS and uses an 
> Intel 8x0 chipset for audio. The ALSA:spdif is no longer giving me 
> floating point errors, it just says, Unable to playback audio, 
> Continue anyway?
>
> - James
>
James,

When you talk about 1920x1080i, are you talking about your output 
monitor output resolution, or high definition video playback?

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