[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse -> ALSA:spdif broken on my Fedora 10 system.

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 17.08.09 22:10, Richard Shaw (hobbes1069 at gmail.com) wrote:

> I'm not sure when it actually got broken but I recently tried playing
> some music in Exaile and it was a no-go. I have had this working
> before because I was resampling output from mythmusic before I figured
> out that my hardware and receiver could handle 44.1kHz PCM audio. When
> I pull up pavucontrol it thinks the digital output it's working as I
> can see the level meter operating as expected.

You need to explain more precisely what is not working.

> load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,1 format=s16le rate=48000
> channels=2 sink_name=digital.

Don't use "hw:xxxx" devices. Always use high-level devices such as
"spdif:xxx". The former won't set up your controls correctly, the
latter will.

Lennart

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