Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

["Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 05:25, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5polish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2008/11/10 Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > 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.