Losing Digital Audio Ouput from Mini SPDIF

I have a 2010 Mac Mini connected to my HDTV/AV Receiver. I send digital audio to the av receiver with an optical cable. I have sleep disabled for OTA DVR. I have not tried to see if it will wake the mini to record.
I have it working, but often upon using the mini the next day, the device changes away from the Digital Out to the Soundflower 2 channel output device. This virtual output is used by one of the rogueamoeba applications to catch audio streams.
At night the AV receiver is turned off, so the mini may think the digital output has failed and does some sort of failover to the next device.
Any ideas?
Ebola.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
You need to start your own discussion concerning your issue. You are committing an infraction, it is called a threadjack. Digital audio from a Mac's audio outport is a very different issue from digital audio over USB.
So return to here; http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1317&start=0
Then press *Post New Topic* from the top left of the page, give your topic a title, and explain your issue as clearly and in as much detail as you can. Include everything that you have already tried to resolve the issue before posting here in the ADs.
Good luck!

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