[mythtv-users] OSX, Mac Mini & AC3 passthru

[scram69]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:26 AM,  <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have this working? I have the Mac Mini (1.83GHz C2D, OSX
>> 10.5.4) hooked up via optical cable to my home theatre receiver, and
>> when I have the AC3 passthru box checked, any recordings with an AC3
>> soundtrack exhibit the following symptoms - very fast playback of
>> video, and audio that sounds like it's bubbling up from underwater,
>> and is also sped up. Playing with the settings such as extra audio
>> buffering will quite often result in lockups of MythTV, and other
>> programs (once MythTV has exited not being able to access the SPDIF
>> device (such as VLC). I'm at the point where I'm just about ready to
>> submit a bug.
>
> Bug is already submitted:
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5552
>
> Craig

After trying this again with OSX 10.5.5 and 0.21-fixes, I thought I'd
resurrect this thread to again ask, "does anyone have AC3 passthrough
working on the Mac Mini?"
While it would at least function, albeit with the aforementioned
accelerated playback bug, under 10.4, it fails spectacularly in
10.5.5.  Not only does attempting playback with AC3 passthrough
checked cause MythFrontend to crash, but it also kills the sound in
all other applications until I reboot my Mini.  Quite destructive...

So I'd be interested to hear of anyone getting this to work with 10.5.x-