<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Al McIntosh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:al@allanmcintosh.com">al@allanmcintosh.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
This is likely getting old... but hey I am hoping this is an easy configuration item I am missing.<br><br>Alsa digital and analog audio passthrough both work well on mythbuntu with the following:<br><br>Audio output device: ALSA:spdif<br>
Passthrough output device:ALSA:IEC958{ AES0 0x02 }<br>Max Audio Channels: Stereo<br>Upmix: Passive<br><br><br>However, I'm having a difficult time getting other apps to pass non-dts audio through to my amp.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I am assuming you want all your applications to go to your spdif port. </span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If so, you need to change asound.conf to this and get rid of everything </span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">else in the file:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; white-space: pre; "></span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">pcm.!default {</span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> type plug</span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> slave.pcm "spdif"</span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">}</span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There are a couple of other configurations that will work as well which I </span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">describe in this wiki.</span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">See </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: normal; "><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki?title=AllensDigitalAudioHowto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki?title=AllensDigitalAudioHowto</span></span></a></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Allen</span></span></div>
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