On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 05:25, Rafał Miłecki
2008/11/10 Andrew Joakimsen
: Is it possible to use the SPDIF (digital) audio? I have tried on two different sets of hardware and it just does not work. Normal audio works fine.
Sure, the easiest way is to check outputs in aplay and use mplayer with ao alsa option.
For example:
zajec@sony:~> aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC262 Analog [ALC262 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Gives you two devices: 0.0 and 1.3. You can try:
mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1.3 file.flac
I do see the device with aplay -l. But how can I just set it globally? I am using the Beta that uses PulseAudio but even with non-beta I can not figure how to globally make the SPDIF output work.