[mythtv-users] SPDIF output

Torsten Schenkel torsten.schenkel at web.de
Sun Nov 2 11:59:49 EST 2003


On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 17:25, Andrew Hogue wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 09:11, Jared Luxenberg wrote:
> > > Yay!  I fixed it, all I had to do was turn the volume of the "IEC958
> > > Playback AC97-SPSA" mixer item down to zero and it worked!  :)
> >
> > Yepp, it's counter-intuitive, but the right way for duplicating the
> > stereo sound on the spdif.
> 
> That's an interesting statement.  Does that mean that the IEC958 only
> duplicated "stereo" sound, what about more than 2 channel sound?  I was
> having an issue where if I play 5.1 dolby than only the surround would
> come through, no center or bass....

No, it not only duplicates, but ac3 passthrough has to be supported by
the player. If you get only two channels then you are using the software
decoder, not hwac3 or passthrough.

Torsten



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