On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:11:20PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > So how can I make it send all sound through the spdif interface?
> You could redefine the ALSA device "default" to be spdif: 
>  # ~/.asoundrc
>  pcm.!default {
>         type plug
>         slave.pcm "spdif"
>  }

That works, thanks! :)

> All ALSA aware sound applications, which use "default" then will play
> over plug:spdif. Maybe you want to read up a bit on the many
> possibilities ALSA's runtime configuraition offers.
> http://alsa.opensrc.org has many examples. You could even enable
> software mixing without relying on arts.

I have been reading a bit about using dmix but have a slight problem.
It is easy to setup things so that dmix is the default place to send
sound, but how can I make dmix use plug:spdif for the actual output?

Anyways, it would be really nice to be able to have software mixing at
the alsa level rather than having to rely upon arts :)

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