On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Bob Sully <<a href="mailto:rcs@malibyte.net">rcs@malibyte.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
HOWEVER:<br>
I now cannot play 5.1 recordings made from QAM with sound. Dead silence,<br>
and the lights on my receiver do not show an attempt to go to 5.1 DD mode.<br>
In the log, I see this:<br>
<br>
TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingPreRecorded<br>
AFD: Opended codec 0x581f790, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)<br>
AFD: Codec AC3 has 6 channels<br>
AFD: Opened codec 0x5987130, id(AC3) type(Audio)<br>
DPMS Deactivated<br>
AFD: Opened codec 0x59b3500, id(MPEG2VIDEO), type(Video)<br>
AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels<br>
AFD: Opened codec 0x59ea6c0, id(AC3), type(Audio)<br>
Opening audio device 'plug:spdif'. ch6(2) sr 48000<br>
Opening ALSA device 'iec958:{ AES0 0x06 }'.<br>
AudioOutputError: Channels count (6) not available: Invalid argument<br></blockquote></div><br>Are you sure you've got passthrough enabled? It's trying to send 6 channels - it should only be sending 2. When I play a AC3 recording I get:<br>
<br>AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels<br>AFD: Opened codec 0x8e9f60, id(AC3), type(Audio)<br>Opening audio device 'spdif'. ch 2(2) sr 48000<br>Opening ALSA audio device 'spdif'.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>