### PME - This taken from Jarod Wilson's MythTV HOWTO which in turn ### took it from the DigitalSoundHowTo at http://www.mythtv.info ### File can either live in users' home dirs as .asoundrc or as ### a global config in /etc/asound.conf. There is some info on the ### file format at http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=.asoundrc. ### MythTV works fine wihtout this file EXCEPT that it can only play ### 48kHz samples so you need this file to have a config that auto ### converts other audio to 48kHz - eg MP3s, bt8x8 recordings etc. ### # Override the default output used by ALSA. # If you do not override the default, your default # device is identical to the (unmixed) analog device # shown below. If you prefer mixed and/or digital # output, uncomment the appropriate four lines below # (only one slave.pcm line). ### Currently set w/digital-hw as the default output, ### comment out this entire section to use unmixed ### analog as your default ### -jarod pcm.!default { type plug ## Uncomment the following to use mixed analog by default # slave.pcm "dmix-analog" ## Uncomment the following to use unmixed digital by default # slave.pcm "digital-hw" ## Uncomment the following to use mixed digital by default ### PME - this is the one I use for sound thro SPDIF. Refer to it ### as ALSA:mixed-digital in MythTV (or possibly ALSA:spdif as well) slave.pcm "dmix-digital" } # Alias for analog output on the Audigy (hw:0,0) # - This is identical to the device named "default"--which # always exists and refers to hw:0,0 (unless overridden) # - Therefore, we can specify "hw:0,0", "default", or "analog" # to access analog output on the Audigy pcm.analog { type plug slave.pcm "analog-hw" } # Control device (mixer, etc.) for the Audigy card ctl.analog { type hw card 0 } # Alias for (rate-converted) mixed analog output on the # Audigy (hw:0,0) # - This will accept audio input--regardless of rate--and # convert to the rate required for the dmix plugin # (in this case 48000Hz) pcm.mixed-analog { type plug slave.pcm "dmix-analog" } # Control device (mixer, etc.) for the Audigy card ctl.mixed-analog { type hw card 0 } # Alias for (rate-converted) digital (S/PDIF) output on the # Audigy (hw:0,0) # - This will accept audio input--regardless of rate--and # convert to the rate required for the S/PDIF hardware # (in this case 48000Hz) pcm.digital { type plug slave.pcm "digital-hw" } # Control device (mixer, etc.) for the Audigy card ctl.digital { type hw card 0 } # Alias for mixed (rate-converted) digital (S/PDIF) output on the # Audigy (hw:0,0) # - This will accept audio input--regardless of rate--and # convert to the rate required for the S/PDIF hardware # (in this case 48000Hz) pcm.mixed-digital { type plug slave.pcm "dmix-digital" } # Control device (mixer, etc.) for the Audigy card ctl.mixed-digital { type hw card 0 } # The following devices are not useful by themselves. They # require specific rates, channels, and formats. Therefore, # you probably do not want to use them directly. Instead use # of of the devices defined above. # Alias for analog output on the Audigy (hw:0,0) # Do not use this directly--it requires specific rate, # channels, and format pcm.analog-hw { type hw card 0 # The default value for device is 0, so no need to specify } # Control device (mixer, etc.) for the Audigy card ctl.analog-hw { type hw card 0 } # Alias for digital (S/PDIF) output on the Audigy (hw:0,0) # Do not use this directly--it requires specific rate, # channels, and format pcm.digital-hw { type hw card 0 device 4 } # Control device (mixer, etc.) for the Audigy card ctl.digital-hw { type hw card 0 } # Direct software mixing plugin for analog output on # the Audigy (hw:0,0) # Do not use this directly--it requires specific rate, # channels, and format pcm.dmix-analog { type dmix ipc_key 1234 slave { pcm "analog-hw" period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 4096 rate 48000 } } # Control device (mixer, etc.) for the Audigy card ctl.dmix-analog { type hw card 0 } # Direct software mixing plugin for digital (S/PDIF) output # on the Audigy (hw:0,0) # Do not use this directly--it requires specific rate, # channels, and format pcm.dmix-digital { type dmix ipc_key 1235 slave { pcm "digital-hw" period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 4096 rate 48000 } } # Control device (mixer, etc.) for the Audigy card ctl.dmix-digital { type hw card 0 }