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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Mark Jenks <mjenks1968@gmail.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Trying to figure out what went wrong with my HDMI.
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:03:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4948B257.9080606@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e5df86c90812160653v1e3ed11fl1c485a4634e106c1@mail.gmail.com>

Mark Jenks wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> wrote:
> > Use "plughw:0,3" instead of "hw:0,3".
>
> What is the difference?

Plughw automatically converts to a sample format that the device
supports.

> And why did hw:0,3 work before?

Probably your old hardware did support mono playback.

> If I want to use it in Myth, would it be ALSA:plughw:0,3 then?

Yes.  (It is possible that Myth can do resampling and channel rerouting
by itself; in this case, hw would also work.)


HTH
Clemens

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-17  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-15 15:42 Trying to figure out what went wrong with my HDMI Mark Jenks
2008-12-16 13:24 ` Clemens Ladisch
     [not found]   ` <e5df86c90812160653v1e3ed11fl1c485a4634e106c1@mail.gmail.com>
2008-12-17  8:03     ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]

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