On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:03:32PM -0400, Andrew wrote: > But then, even with "hw=2.1" (without the explicit error messages), I only get two channels, not six! Sounds to me like that is just the "normal" output, not SPDIF. Maybe this helps you: http://alsa.opensrc.org/DigitalOut I think you need to use something like iec958:CARD=...,DEV=... except that I think you can't directly with MPlayer so you'll probably have to modify your alsa config (unless e.g. aplay -L already shows a suitable alias for it).
