Stefan Lucke wrote:

>> 'aplay -l' shows:
>> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
>> card 0: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 0: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI
>> DAC/ADC]
>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>> card 0: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 1: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI 2nd
>> DAC]
>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> 
>> card 0: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 2: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI
>> IEC958]
>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> 
> So card 0 and device 2 should be ok. But the line with subdevice #0
> irritates me.

Could that be a problem?
 
>>
>>
>> 'aplay -L' shows:
> 
>> surround51:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
>>     C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
>>     5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
>> iec958:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
>>     C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
>>     IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
>> null
>>     Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
> 
> Discard all samples ??

Well, if that's what the "null" device does... However, I do not use it (at 
least, not knowingly).

>> And the most important, the parameters given to the softdevice plugin:
>> '--plugin=softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv -ao alsa:pcm=default#ac3=hw:0,2#'
>>
>> I have to mention that normal mpeg audio is decoded and sent as PCM to
>> the SPDIF, only AC3 and only with vdr softdevice is the problem. I tried
>> hw:0,0 and hw:0,1 as well, but no sound. How to deal with this, did I
>> miss something?
> 
> Are there messages written to stderr which start with "ac3play"
> (autsch: everything written to stdout grr) ?

No, unfortunately none of those "ac3play" messages are written, really 
strange...
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