[mythtv-users] AC3 Passthrough issues

[Matt]

On 3/12/06, Brian Steele <steele.brian at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 3/12/06, Matt <skd5aner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Also... I have myth set to ALSA:digital and the mixer set to "digital"
> > > and the drop down next to the set to PCM.
> > >
> > > I can still verify that analog shows get sent to the receiver as PCM.
> > >
> > > What now?
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> > > Thanks!
> > > Matt
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> > Well, I found out another thing...
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> > - The receiver was set to AFD (Auto Format Decode).  It was able to
> > instantly identify the PCM stuff as two channel, but it never detects
> > the AC3 passthrough as true AC3.  I had to manually set it to
> > "surround" and then I got the channels.  HOWEVER, it still doesn't say
> > that it's truly decoding an AC3 signal.
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> > I think this might be a bug in the format of the signal that myth is
> > passing.  How can we troubleshoot this?
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> > Thanks!
> > Matt
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> I've found that setting Myth to output to ALSA:spdif made it work on my
> system.  Using other outputs caused trouble for me.
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> Brian
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Same thing... I really think that the AC3 signal coming out might not
be standard, but I'm not sure how to confirm.

Thanks!
Matt