[mythtv-users] Mac mini - no DTS or AC3 sound?

Jarle Thorsen jarlethorsen at gmail.com
Sat Aug 9 22:13:36 UTC 2008


On Saturday 09 August 2008 17:38:09 Allen Edwards wrote:
> I don't have a MAC so this may be different but to get sound working on
> my system I did the following:
> 1) remove or rename the two alsa config files (asound.conf and .asoundrc)
> 2) some people have to uninstall pulse audio.  I think this is with Fedora.
> 3) Sound ALSA:default
> 4) Passthrough ALSA:spdif
> 5) check Stereo (not 5.1)
> 6) turn on iec958 in alsamixer
>
>
> In my experience, if you try and follow any wiki and set up asound.conf,
> you are dead.  The defaults are used if there is no config file and they
> work great.

I haven't tried #1 yet, will give it a try and see if it makes any difference.

I had it set to 5.1 and when I set it to Stereo at least I got a lot of black 
NOISE, at least I got some sound for a change...



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