Re: S/PDIF ac3-passthrough problem

["Clemens Ladisch" <cladisch@fastmail.net>]

Mark Lehrer wrote:
> Hello there.  I have been having a weird problem for the past few
> months, and I think I am going to have to dive into source code to
> figure it out.  The problem: mplayer can play digital audio through
> the S/PDIF connector, but VLC and Mythtv cannot.  Here is the error
> from VLC:
> 
> [00000311] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:448000
> [00000314] alsa audio output error: internal: can't find audio-device (10)
> 
> Could someone please help me to decipher this error a bit?  VLC has a
> device auto-detect, and it set the output device to hw:0,1.

This is wrong.

Look at the mplayer output (probably with -v) to see which device it opens.
It should be something like "iec958:{CARD 0 .....}".


HTH
Clemens

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