[mythtv-users] Strange Audio Problem 0.25

[Igor Cicimov]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> On 13 June 2012 14:02, Igor Cicimov <icicimov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yep now that you mentioned it I remembered, the HDMI option was not
> working
> > for me too. I think has something to do with the channels, format and
> > sampling rate which needs to be 48KHz for the digital output (I think).
>
> Maybe in 2008 with myth 0.21/0.22 that would have been required.
> Certainly not today
>
> > That's why you need to choose the software mixing plugin device and not
> the
> > hardware device it self. Then the dmix plugin probably uses the hardware
> > device as slave PCM.
>
> only if you do not want digital passthrough, which with hdmi is rather
> unfortunate.
>
> It would allow you however to enjoy audio from more than one
> application at a time.
>
> But a much easier dmix configuration would then be:
>
> pcm.!default {
>   type plug
>   slave.pcm "dmix:1,3"
> }
>
> where in dmix:1,3, 1 is the hardware card and 3 is the device number.
> and in myth you would then use ALSA:default
> as device name
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Haha as I said we gonna learn something here :)

Maybe in 2008 with myth 0.21/0.22 that would have been required.
> Certainly not today


Yep that's exactly the year I've set-up HDMI on MythTV 0.20 using dmix
plugin. Otherwise no way to get audio over HDMI.

Thanks,
Igor
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