[mythtv-users] AC3 passthrough abnormality

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 18:09:55 UTC 2006


On 4/9/06, Charles Waddell <daniel_waddell01 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I recently added satelite speakers to my sound system (3.1 to 6.1). I have
> alsa configured for AC3 passthrough, and it works flawlessly in Xine playing
> DVDs. However when I have surround sound through mythtv, the speaker output
> is all mixed up. The most obvious mixup is that the center channel audio
> outputs through the left satelite, but all speakers are outputting audio. I
> currently have /dev/adsp set as the audio output device and have audio
> optical output to my receiver. Here are some settings you might need to help
> me out, I am lost on this one.

Wait, your using AC3 passthrough and the speaker output is on the
wrong channels? Myth shouldn't be touching the AC3 stream if your
using passthrough. Have you tried playing back the Myth recordings in
mplayer to see if the behaviour changes?


--
Steve


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