[mythtv-users] xine passes Dolby Digital, but not DTS [SOLVED]

Daniel A. Segel mythtv at archer-segel.com
Sun Feb 5 18:33:40 UTC 2006


Daniel A. Segel wrote:

>I use xine via MythTV to watch DVD images (iso's) that I've created from 
>my DVD collection. I have it configured to pass through the digital 
>audio to my receiver via alsa and the onboard nforce audio. If I select 
>the Dolby Digital soundtrack then it all works beautifully, but if I 
>select a DTS audio track then I get no sound at all. DTS works fine from 
>my real DVD player, so I know there's no problem on the receiver end.
>
>Is there something I'm missing with the xine configuration? Some 
>additional library I need to install? How can I begin to debug this 
>
>problem? Would posting my alsa and/or xine configuration files help?
>
It turns out I just needed to compile xine with a DTS flag of some kind.
I use Gentoo, so after putting 'dts' in my use flags and re-emerging it
everything works fine.

Daniel




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