[mythtv-users] AC3 passthrough still doesn't work.
James Armstrong
james at thearmstrongs.org
Mon Oct 25 00:50:39 UTC 2004
Bo Najdrovsky wrote:
> 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?
>
>
I have the same problem, especially with ABC. You might want to try the
patch I did that makes watching these easier with mplayer. It adds a
menu option to the playback menu to view in an external player. It uses
the Default Video Playback player in setup to play the files.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/90251?nohighlight=1#90251
- James
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