[MPlayer-users] digital audio out when watching TV

[ephemeron at softhome.net]

On 11. December 2003 at 7:57AM +0100,
"Stephen D. Leedle" <LeedleSt at gmx.de> wrote:

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> There is a driver module called "btaudio" by Gerd Knorr (who
> wrote the bttv driver, too). This module works miracles... (not
> on my machine ;-(
> 
> (This needs a Brooktree/Conexant BT878 compatible tv card, and
> a MSP34xx/3400 or similar decoder chip for audio, which seems
> NOT to be on every Hauppauge tv card.)
> 
> The idea is to grab the audio signal NOT by line out/cable/line
> in/sound processor, but to directly access a /dev/dsp[n] device
> :-) which btaudio registers. This device will function as a OSS
> DSP which can be accessed by sox and by mplayer/mencoder (ask
> for proper options, if You can't find them, I could have a
> look, but I haven't got them by heart.)

I've long noticed "butaudio" as a kernel config option.  Would
this the module *with* ALSA, let's say, via ALSA's OSS emulation?

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