From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Clemens Ladisch" Subject: Re: S/PDIF ac3-passthrough problem Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:24:08 +0200 Message-ID: <1156148648.21723.269019688@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <20060818180241.GB8513@knm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060818180241.GB8513@knm.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: mark@knm.org, alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642