spdif output from mplayer?

[Peter Reed]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> I'm already overloaded with conflicting advice from web searches,
> but since none of it has actually worked, I thought I'd try
> asking here :-).
> 
> FC5, x86_64, mplayer (from livna), and a Biostar TForce4U motherboard
> with onboard nvidia nforce4 sound.
> 
> The motherboard has an SPDIF output, and I can, in fact, get sound
> from it when I run various games and wot-not.
> 
> But none of the things I've tried in mplayer have yet resulted
> in the DVD sound being passed through to the SPDIF output
> (I can only get sound on the stereo line-out).
> 
> Anyone with an nforce4 motherboard had success with mplayer
> spdif out on Fedora Core 5?
> 
> 
See this page:  http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=intel8x0 at the 
bottom is instructions on the NForce 4 chipset.  It worked for me.
Peter