[mythtv-users] output audio to hdmi and spdif at the same time

Allen Edwards allen.p.edwards at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 07:01:31 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Kevin Johnson <dabears_rule at yahoo.com>wrote:

> >> Don't set myth up to 5.1, set it up for stereo.  If you have passthrough
> > setup correctly, the data will still be 5.1 if that is what is started
> out
> > as.  the 5.1 setting is just there to confuse you ;-)
> >
> > Allen
> >
>
>
> I just noticed you are decoding and re-encoding the bit streams, not doing
> a
> passthrough. I don't much like doing that as it destroys the sound quality.
> I also don't much like that old howto that you referenced, didn't have much
> luck with it, which is why I wrote the one I wrote.  However, I don't have
> HDMI so am not much help.
>
> Allen
>
> Okay, I changed .asoundrc to just this
> defaults.pcm.device 3
>
> Then I changed mythfrontend audio setup as default and stereo.
> Now i have sound over both spdif and hdmi.
> However, the spdif is not showing up as digital.  I assume this is because
> I do not have pass through set up correctly.  If so, how do I set the spdif
> out as pass through>
>
>
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Everything I know I wrote down here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki?title=AllensDigitalAudioHowto

There are contributions from others as well so I guess you could say it has
more than I know.

Allen
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