[mythtv-users] ALSA and real AC3 passthrough

Petr Stehlik pstehlik at sophics.cz
Fri Dec 30 18:10:56 EST 2005


Jeff Wormsley píše v Pá 30. 12. 2005 v 10:57 -0500:
> >But did you try real AC3 source in MythTV? Probably some HDTV?
> >
> How would your reciever understand a mix of AC3 and PCM data at the same 
> time?  Or were you using two seperate outputs (ie: digital for AC3 and 
> analog for MP3/etc)?

Nope. I use just single digital output. I admit I am getting lost in
this since DVB-S MPEG sound plays always (both with ALSA:digital and
ALSA:spdif) but AC3 plays only with ALSA:spdif while MP3 plays only with
ALSA:digital.

I don't know how the IEC958 works in reality but it looks like I am just
a small step from a fully working solution. If the AC3 passthrough was
going to ALSA:spdif everytime and I could have ALSA:digital for other
sources *maybe* it would work.

Petr




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