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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Hi Mike,<BR>
Thanks for the suggestion. Tried that and got the same response. Finally got it to work by setting the passthrough device to be dmix. I am not sure if that is good or bad, but it works so I am going with it!<BR>
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Thanks for the help,<BR>
Landon<BR>
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On 6/12/06 10:24 AM, "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean@thirdcontact.com> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>On 06/12/2006 01:12 PM, ldc online wrote:<BR>
> I am trying to get ac3 pass thru to to work on my new mythtv box that<BR>
> I setup over the weekend. In the setup screens, I enabled AC3 pass<BR>
> through, but when I watch a DVD straight from a disc, I only get two<BR>
> channel. I have also tried using XINE instread of mplayer, but when I<BR>
> set that speaker arrangment settings to pass through and<BR>
> restart xine, I get an Audio Device is Unavailable error. Clicking on<BR>
> more in XINE, I<BR>
> see the following possibly relevant messages:<BR>
> Audio_decoder: error: unknown buffer type: 01060000<BR>
> Audio_decoder: error: unknown buffer type: 04000000<BR>
> Audio_decoder: error: unknown buffer type: 02990000<BR>
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What do you have specified for the audio.device.alsa_passthrough_device<BR>
in ~/.xine/config?<BR>
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# device used for 5.1-channel output<BR>
# string, default: iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2<BR>
#audio.device.alsa_passthrough_device:iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2<BR>
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If the same as the above (or with the bottom line uncommented), try just<BR>
plain "iec958" instead.<BR>
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Mike<BR>
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