[alsa-devel] Incorrect name of PCM

[Christopher Head]

On July 23, 2018 9:15:59 AM PDT, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
>Just ignore this entry.  alsa-lib tries to parse the all possible
>outputs that are provided from the kernel interface.  Due to
>historical reasons, this digital output might be either SPDIF or HDMI,
>and alsa-lib has no knowledge to distinguish easily, hence both spdif
>and hdmi device names are provided equally for such a case.

Not here, they aren’t. There is no PCM named “spdif” at all: it isn’t in the list, and if I type it, I can’t play to it for a reason that looks a lot like it doesn’t exist.

-- 
Christopher Head
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