[mythtv-users] alsa spdif works with myth but not xine, aplay or mplayer

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 14:39:09 UTC 2009


Hi

2009/2/22 Al McIntosh <al at allanmcintosh.com>:
> However, I'm having a difficult time getting other apps to pass non-dts
> audio through to my amp.

For mplayer, create a ~/.mplayer/config
with something like:
ao=alsa:device=spdif
ac=hwac3,hwdts,

same thing can be done with xine ..

You won't achieve what you want with a generic alsa configuration ;
each application needs to be configured to handle dts and ac3
properly.


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