[mythtv-users] how to tell if 5.1 audio channels mapped correctly?

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On 5 November 2010 14:34, Dan Christensen <jdc at uwo.ca> wrote:
> I used "-ac hwdts" on the mplayer command line.  Is there a way to set
> up alsa so that by default most software will use digital passthrough?
> Or does that need to be configured for each piece of software?

the later

> Does your sound cut-out when your screen blanks (e.g. "xset dpms force
> off")?  Sometimes I want to play music, so I've got to disable the
> screensaver for this to work.

don't know, I disable the screen saver when using myth

>
> Also, for testing, have you found a good command line tool for playing
> the audio files you have?  How do you play them from within myth?
> (I haven't installed mythmusic myself.)

For playing the audio, I have them added to mythmusic.

Unfortunately, there are no myth command line to only play audio.
mythtavtest only works with video files.

Sometimes, what I do is start Adobe Premiere and add a dummy video to
it keeping the original soundtrack.
Much easier to test that way with mythavtest

That's what the .mpg file are on the server ; no video , just the
audio track, but they can be played by a video player