[mythtv-users] s/pdif sound fc 4

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Feb 6 22:51:39 UTC 2006


Chris Lynch wrote:

>However, today I tried a config setting that was similar to what I use in
>Xine and I got AC-3 over SPDIF to work.  My setting was this in MythTV:
>ALSA:iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2
>
>It does not matter (I don't think at least), what your .asoundrc is set to
>in this case.
>

Correct.  The syntax you specified gives information that you could 
instead place into the ~/.asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf to give it an 
easy-to-remember name--like AC3.  So, it circumvents the ALSA 
configuration settings (assuming you haven't re-defined iec958 in your 
ALSA conf).

Mike


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