[avivsworld]

Alright, i'm a complete noob to xbmc and i've installed live on an Acer Aspire L3600, and i'm having a hell of a time getting spdif to work. I've set the audio output to optical/spdif, played with the different output devices, if I put aplay -l in terminal it tells me (I have to type it in as I don't have a net connection on the xbmc pc yet)

card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0:Subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0:Subdevice #0

But i'm not entirely sure what that means.
I've looked in /etc and there's no asound.conf file, and there's nothing in /home other than aviv, hts and xbmc.

I did write an asound.conf file in /etc as follows

# M-Audio Revolution 7.1 has no 'spdif' alias in 'aplay -L'
# I'm guessing cards that have one defined won't need this.
pcm.!spdif {
type hw
card 0
device 1
}

# Sets default playback to 'spdif'.
pcm.!default{
type plug
slave {
pcm "spdif"
rate 48000
format S32_LE # ice1724 cards can only use this format
}
}

from http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=165009&postcount=7

But this didn't seem to do anything either, even after a reboot.
I also unmuted spdif in alsamixer with no results.
I really have no idea what to do, any hints on connecting it? Cheers.

[avivsworld]

Bump. Everything I've searched hasn't helped me. Anyone have any clues? It's coaxial, not toslink, if that helps.

[cobradevil]

i'm no audio guru but try the basic steps

does analog audio work?

when you do aplay -L en try to play a sound to the devices e.g.
aplay -L
whole list
cut
plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0

then play a sound to that output

aplay -D plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 /usr/share/sound/alsa/Front_Center.wav

do that for every device you see!
If you get souund from a device then put that device line exactly in xbmc
also did you unmute the channels with alsamixer?