I use an ALC655 onboard codec on a ECS k7 mainboard, it uses the sis7012 alsa driver, alsa-lib 1.0.10

my start line is:

-P'\softdevice -vo dfb: -ao alsa:pcm=spdif#ac3=iec958:AES0=0x2,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2#

dont ask me why I need the AES1= parts, that was the only way I could get ac3 passthru to work, but that works great, its just channels that are mono, non-ac3 ones.

Jan 7 13:02:03 vdr vdr[6497]: [softdevice-audio] Opening alsa device spdif Jan 7 13:02:03 vdr vdr[6497]: [softdevice-audio] Using alsa AC3 device iec958:AES0=0x2,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2

Stefan Lucke wrote:

On Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2006 03:17, Dave wrote:

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I have this new error after changing motherboards in a VDR box.

Which motherboard do you use ? Whats your ALSA version ?

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Jan 4 20:03:59 vdr vdr[6909]: setting audio track to 1 (0) Jan 4 20:03:59 vdr vdr[6912]: [softdevice-audio] samplerate: 48000Hz, channels: #1 Jan 4 20:03:59 vdr vdr[6912]: [softdevice-audio] Channels count non available FATAL exiting Jan 4 20:04:00 vdr vdr[6516]: DFB remote control thread ended (pid=6516)

. Any time I tune to a "mono" channel, VDR Softdevice crashes, whenever Channels: #1

I Only changed the motherboard, nothing in VDR, so I suspect some sound misconfiguration. I just have no idea what?

Which alsa device name did you specify upon startup ? ( .. -ao alsa:pcm=DEVICE_NAME .. )

Alsa device names in use are reported at startup via syslog: Jan 5 20:58:06 jarada vdr[3865]: [softdevice-audio] Opening alsa device default Jan 5 20:58:06 jarada vdr[3865]: [softdevice-audio] Using alsa AC3 device hw:0,1

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Vdr 1.3.37 Softdevice CVS fairly recent