[pulseaudio-discuss] Sending all audio out S/PDIF

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 28.08.09 01:22, Nasa (nasa01 at comcast.net) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Earlier this month in a thread titled Pulse -> ALSA:spdif broken on my Fedora 10 system there was discussion on how to send audio 
> out the digital (ie spdif) port.  At the end of the thread I gathered that adding the following to the default.pa file would do the trick...
> 
> load-module module-alsa-sink devie=spdif

Try "device" instead of "devie". Also, you might want to pass the card
name here as well. i.e. "device=spdif:Intel" if your card is called
"Intel". See /proc/asound/cards for the card names.

> However, I haven't had much luck -- getting the following errors:
> 
> Failed to parse module arguments
> E: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-sink"

Increase the log level in PA to get a more detailed explanation on
what is going on.

> I am attempting to send all of my audio out of my spdif port, and I
> do expect to have to do some mixing at some point. Why? audio in my
> car is done via spdif and I expect to have audio for both music and
> gps directions at the same time.  Is this going to be possible?
> Thanks in advanced.

Sure. PA can mix audio for you.

Lennart

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