[mythtv-users] AC3 Passthrough Problems

[Steven Adeff]

On 8/15/06, Mark Lehrer <mark at knm.org> wrote:
>
> > Any idea why both xine and mplayer will work but MythTV won't?
> >
> > I have an Intel HDA audio device on my D915PBL motherboard.  All of
> > my recordings have AC3 sound.
>
> I won't be too much help, but I am having the exact same problem on
> my nforce4-based board.  It is extremely annoying!
>
> I am using the same asoundrc that was working perfectly on my old
> P4 system, but on my new one it only works with mplayer (haven't
> tried xine).

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Digital_Sound

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Enabling_nForce4_optical_SPDIF_output

Mark, what sound chip is your nForce4 board using? Most use an ALC
chip family (850,etc)

-- 
Steve
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