Hello there. I have been having a weird problem for the past few months, and I think I am going to have to dive into source code to figure it out. The problem: mplayer can play digital audio through the S/PDIF connector, but VLC and Mythtv cannot. Here is the error from VLC: [00000311] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:448000 [00000314] alsa audio output error: internal: can't find audio-device (10) Could someone please help me to decipher this error a bit? VLC has a device auto-detect, and it set the output device to hw:0,1. aplay says that this is a: card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital] I have tried every S/PDIF howto I could find, including multiple asouncrc files. The weirdest part is: if I take the hard drive out and put it in my other system (Intel P4 based - too slow to use), the S/PDIF works perfectly in all applications. I guess my first questions are: 1) what device is alsa trying to access? could i be missing something under /dev/dvb? 2) What is different about how mplayer and VLC send AC3 sound to the sound device? Thanks, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
