[mythtv-users] Digital Audio Problems - Noisey, stuttering, skipping

[Allen Edwards]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:59 AM, James Armstrong
<james at thearmstrongs.org> wrote:
>
> On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:26 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, James Armstrong
>> <james at thearmstrongs.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Well, I might as well join in. I have a MSI mb with hdmi and although I
>>> did
>>> get it working with Alsa:hw0,3 I can't control the volume
>>
>> no, you won't be able to, thats what your amplifier is for. Its a
>> digital stream you can't control the volume at the point of the
>> computer.
>
> I was able to with the SPDIF connection on my old setup. I think it had
> something to do with a plug we did in ALSA that allowed us to control the
> volume. I will have to see if I can find my notes on it. It was just nice to
> do it all through mythtv, I guess I can reprogram my remote. I might still
> have to do something because it sounds like there is a playback freq
> mismatch as everything sounds a little higher in pitch. Maybe a 44khz /
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I will point out that if you do get myth to control the volume you
will no longer have the same but stream going out so something is
processing it.  If that is alsa, I understand it doesn't do a very
good job so you might be better off reprogramming your remote.

Allen