Did you ever find a solution to this? I'm getting the same exact thing. Command-line playing works fine over spdif, myth dvd works fine, playing recorded shows works fine. Watching live tv does not.
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:35:31 -0500, Brad Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:48:15 -0600, Andrew Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you can buy a male to male stereo patch cable and plug one end into > > the output of your pvr-350 and the other into the input of your sound > > card. when you listen to music it will be the same as usual. when > > you watch tv you should now get sound out of the SPDIF port. > > not pretty, but it should work. > > I've got a related problem and it's been driving me nuts for quite a > while now. I have a pvr350 and a zoltrix nightingale soundcard > (c-media CM8738 using cmpci kernel module). I have the 350 audio > outputs linked into the line in of the soundcard and both spdif > optical and stereo rca connections from the soundcard outputs to my > receiver's inputs. I've tried the instructions in the > DigitalSoundHowTo on mythtv.info that say to set "Analog to IEC958 > Output" to on in alsamxer. The problem is that alsamixer has a > setting labeled just IEC958 Output which seems to have no effect > whether it is on or off. There is another setting labeled IEC958 > Loop. My understanding of this setting is that it pipes the analog > input back out through the spdif output. However, when I enable this > setting I am very clearly getting analog audio coming into the > receiver, but sound works for all parts of myth. (I know this because > I can disconnect the spdif cable and still get sound, but when I > disconnect the analog cables sound goes away.) When I disable this > setting I get audio over the spdif connector for MythMusic, MythVideo, > MythDVD, etc. Everything EXCEPT tv. The only way I've found so far > to get sound from tv over the spdif connector is to use the > instructions from the DigitalSoundHowTo for Via sound chips. The > problem there is that the only way to get that to work is to issue > this command from the command line: > > arecord -D hw:0,0 -fdat | aplay -D mixed-digital > > This works perfectly for outputting tv audio over the spdif connector, > but there is no way to automatically execute that command every time > myth plays a recording and if I leave that command running all the > time I get double audio from all other parts of myth (music, video, > etc). > > Has anyone else had a similar problem? Is anyone else using a cmpci > sound device succesfully using spdif output for all parts of myth? > The sound quality I get over spdif is obviously much better than the > analog connections, but right now I'm stuck using analog for > everything in order to avoid having to switch audio inputs when using > different parts of myth (because that's too much for the GF to handle > ;). > > Thanks, > Brad > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
