[mythtv-users] Exasperated: DD/DTS SPDIF works with everything *except* MythTV

[Alex Butcher]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Allen Edwards wrote:

> Rename or delete asound.conf and .asoundrc.
> Set the passthrough device to ALSA:iec958:{ AES0 0x02 }
> Audio output device to ALSA:spdif.
> If you are running Fedora, get rid of Pulse Audio (not
> trivial apparently).
> Turn on iec958 in alsamixer.

I didn't need to disable PulseAudio in FC8 to get simultaneous output to
SPDIF and analogue working. Details of my setup are at
<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User:Cowbutt#Sound>

> Allen

HTH,
Alex.