Hi everyone,
I’m pretty new to OpenSUSE and linux as well but I’ve been searching through the forums and everywhere else to find a solution to this problem but have not been able to fix it.
Basically, I have a hda-intel sound card and I’m trying to use SPDIF output for the sound. Sound is working through SPDIF for programs like vlc and SMPlayer but not in web browsers. When I watch a youtube video or visit pages with sound the sound comes from the headphone jack instead of SPDIF.
I thought this had to do with the settings in “Configure Desktop -> Multimedia” but i set all the Audio Output settings to use the SPDIF sound device first. There is an analog device but it is at a lower priority and I can’t seem to remove that to see if that’ll force all sound output to go to SPDIF.
I ran the “lsof /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/mixer* /dev/snd/*” command in the terminal while i had sound from vlc going and this was the output:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
kmix 3705 jeev 10u CHR 116,8 0t0 6417 /dev/snd/controlC0
vlc 6087 jeev mem CHR 116,3 6444 /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p
vlc 6087 jeev 14u CHR 116,8 0t0 6417 /dev/snd/controlC0
vlc 6087 jeev 15u CHR 116,3 0t0 6444 /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p
I ran the same command with Firefox running a youtube video and this is the output:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
kmix 3705 jeev 10u CHR 116,8 0t0 6417 /dev/snd/controlC0
npviewer. 5802 jeev mem CHR 116,5 6410 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
npviewer. 5802 jeev 12u CHR 116,2 0t0 5535 /dev/snd/timer
npviewer. 5802 jeev 13u CHR 116,5 0t0 6410 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
npviewer. 5802 jeev 14u CHR 116,8 0t0 6417 /dev/snd/controlC0
Does anyone know how I can switch the output for browser applications to my “pcmC0D1p” device which seems to be SPDIF?