From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7dmM-0004pq-GI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:36:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06EB9E0979; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 23:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.netspace.net.au (mail-out4.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C90E0979 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 23:36:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by smtp.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7D2C337BDC4 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:36:10 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa SPDIF+analog at same time From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200911091750.30549.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> References: <200911091750.30549.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:04:44 +0930 Message-ID: <1257809684.10743.32.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ae5973a4-efa6-41f4-a61c-f47ca3c65c8a X-Archives-Hash: 25830b57ce254e7327125c2163f67f2f On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 17:50 +0100, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there! > > I'd like to have an audio signal on both the SPDIF and the analog output. I > know that this is possible, since I had such configuration some weeks ago, but > due to some circumstance I really can't reproduce it suddenly doesn't work > anymore. possibly alsa / gnome updates? > SPDIF itself works fine when playing AC3 or DTS streams in Mythtv, but there's > only an analog signal when I play videos that only have MP2/MP3 streams or if > I play music (mp3,ogg, etc) - there is no signal on SPDIF in this case. > > So, how do I get back the non-AC3/DTS-Audiostreams on SPDIF? with mplayer I used to use this command to get spdif output: mplayer -afm hwac3 blah.avi also, with the old (2.24?) gnome alsa mixer, I found I had to add the spdif or IEC device (can't quite remember), and although it was a slider, it only worked in an on or off fashion. Not much help for you I know, but I can't run the same mixer anymore to find out. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?