[mythtv-users] Surround Sound AS3/DTS out SPDIF

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Tue Feb 6 14:56:06 UTC 2007


Josh wrote:
> Josh wrote:
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>> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>> Josh wrote:
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>>>> As anyone that's been reading the list recently knows, I have a 
>>>> Revolution 7.1 that I can get everything to work with except for AC3 or 
>>>> DTS pass through... it just doesn't work for me on Fedora Core 6 (or 
>>>> Fedora Core 5). I have all but given up on this card and want to buy one 
>>>> that I know will work.
>>>>
>>>> Can people that have AC3 and/or DTS pass through working over S/PDIF 
>>>> (Coax or Optical) please let me know what distro and sound card your using?
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>>> Get a Turtle Beach Riviera.  Works out of the box with Fedora.  No 
>>> .asoundrc.  Just enable the IEC958 in alsa-mixer, set Myth to 
>>> passthrough and ALSA:default and go.
>>>
>>> Kevin
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>> See... That's the first card that I bought and when I brought it home 
>> and plugged it up, it worked for about 30 minutes, then it stopped for 
>> no apparent reason (but apparently there WAS a reason it stopped and I 
>> couldn't figure out what it was). I have an idea... I'm going to remove 
>> (backup) my configs, shutdown my front end, swap out the cards and try 
>> this simple solution you suggest... I'll post back shortly with the results.
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> It's been an hour and I haven't even heard a peep from this card... 
> maybe I should check into a rubber room for a couple of days and see if 
> that helps any.
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Put it into a windows box and see if your card isn't dead.

Kevin


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