[mythtv-users] AC3 passthrough still doesn't work.

[Bo Najdrovsky]

Well, I've made quite a bit of progress on my HD2000 based MythTV box, 
but there is one last remaining nagging issue, and that's the fact that 
the AC3 passthrough does not work in mythfrontend.  I'm able to play the 
recorded .nuv files with mplayer, and the AC3 passthrough works fine 
with that program when I use the command line option -ao 
alsa:device=spdif    This fact confirmed for me that my hardware is not 
at fault, but the bug must be in Myth.  I went and recompiled MythTV 
0.16 to make sure that ALSA output is enabled, restarted everything and 
put ALSA:spdif into the audio device field in front end configuration, 
but the results are the same as with OSS... I hear about quarter second 
of audio, and then silence.  I'm guessing that perhaps mythfrontend 
isn't setting up the SPDIF port correctly.  Any ideas?