<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Craig Lovold</b> <<a href="mailto:craig@lovolds.com">craig@lovolds.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've had my MythTV setup (1 backend, 4 frontend boxes) working<br>beautifully in my house for a couple years now but I have been unable to<br>get Dolby Digital output.<br><br>Two of my frontend boxes have ChainTech AV710 cards and are hooked up to
<br>Dolby Digital capable preamps, I do not use any analog outputs, strictly<br>digital optical connection to the preamp. For movie playback I use Xine.<br><br>Recorded shows and movies playback fine in 2-channel, but if I try
<br> to use a passthrough setting and tell Xine to use automatic passthrough<br>mode it says that the device is busy.<br><br>Why is it so hard to just get an AC3 passthrough to work?<br><br>Anybody have a system like this working?
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</div><br>I assume you already followed the digital audio how-to on the wiki, right? Also, in MY experiences with the newer versions of MythTV there really is no obvious benefit of using Xine over the built-in player. In .18 I used Xine but ever since I upgraded to .20 the internal player seems to work just fine. It was actually one less thing to configure for AC3 and for LIRC so the configuration was a lot more easy. I have had my share of knock-down-drag-out fights with AC3 so I feel your pain and hope you get it resolved soon.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Josh<br><a href="mailto:josh.zeno@gmail.com">josh.zeno@gmail.com</a>