[mythtv-users] SPDIF mutes after about an hour

[Allen Edwards]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Dive Turkey <diveturkey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Allen Edwards
> <allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Dive Turkey <diveturkey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The SPDIF audio from my FE will mute itself at a predictable interval
>> > (slightly more than an hour).
>>
>> How do you have your system configured?  What passthrough device, any
>> ALSA config files?
>
> No alsa config files (though on previous iterations I had a
> configuration very much like the old Wiki article).  Mythfrontend is
> configured with ALSA:default, passthrough to ALSA:iec958:(AESO 0x02),
> max channels: Stereo, DTS and AC-3 Passthrough, Agressive Sound Card
> buffers and
> Use Internal Volume controls not enabled.
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Only thing I would do differently is instead of ALSA:default, use ALSA:spdif

You might try it and see if it helps.  Also, if you are on Fedora,
some have reported they needed to uninstall Pulse Audio, which was
involved apparently as there is a half way to uninstall it which isn't
enough.

Allen