Thanks for the tip in the right direction. Following lots more searching / experiments I finally have a .asoundrc that works.
I now play music and tv using mplayer -ao alsa:device=both The following is the config I use in case it helps someone else. pcm.both { type route slave { pcm multi channels 4 } ttable.0.0 1.0 ttable.1.1 1.0 ttable.0.2 1.0 ttable.1.3 1.0 } pcm.multi { type multi slaves.a { pcm "tv" channels 2 } slaves.b { pcm "receiver" channels 2 } bindings.0.slave a bindings.0.channel 0 bindings.1.slave a bindings.1.channel 1 bindings.2.slave b bindings.2.channel 0 bindings.3.slave b bindings.3.channel 1 } pcm.tv { type hw card 0 device 3 channels 2 } pcm.receiver { type hw card 0 device 1 channels 2 } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users