[mythtv-users] Dolby Digital Signal indicator on Receiver

Nick Tan nick.tan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 23:17:50 UTC 2008


On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Joe Henley <joehenley at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> Please pardon me for moving in on your topic.....
>
>  I have a similar problem which you might be able to help.
>
>  I have a Denon AVR-2807 which I feed the SPDIF output from a Via
>  MII-6000E mobo running MiniMyth.  All works fine except nothing I do
>  will get the Denon to see the input from the SPDIF as 44.1 KHz when
>  feeding it from a CD player or a ripped CD file.  It always says it's 48
>  KHz.  I've tried the sample rate parameter for the snd_via82xx module,
>  and after I saw this note I tried the iecset program.  Both work fine
>  and give no error.  But the SPDIF output is still read by the AVR as 48 KHz.
>
>  The AVR obviously could be correct and the Via mobo just sucks so bad it
>  won't _do_ 44.1 KHz.  Or perhaps there is something else you might
>  suggest.  All suggestions, comments, etc. are  welcome.
>
>  Thanks for your help.
>
>  Joe Henley
>

Hi Joe,

I know that some soundcards (like my old SBLive Value) internally
resample everything to 48 Khz when outputting on the SPDIF output.
Perhaps your built-in soundcard is doing the same thing.

Nick


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