[mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/19/06 22:25, Jarod Wilson wrote:

>On Thursday 19 January 2006 19:11, William Lewis wrote:
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>>>Yeah.  Shouldn't "video as timebase" be disabled if "AC-3 Passthrough"
>>>is enabled and there's an AC-3 stream?  (Kind of like AC-3 is disabled
>>>when the user initiates timestretch--at least until Mark finishes his
>>>AC-3 re-encode work.)
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>>>
>>The only difficulty is an implementation detail.  Since the settings are on
>>different screens, the setting for "Use video as timebase" would have to be
>>tri-state: Off, On, Was on but ac3 is disabled.  Another 2 cents worth.  If
>>the user goes from AC3 passthrough off to on, this would disable the video
>>as timebase.  Well, if he changes his mind, it should go back to being on.
>>However, if it was off the whole time, then changing the AC3 setting
>>wouldn't matter.
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>How 'bout simply disabling 'use video as timebase' at run-time when passing 
>raw AC3, regardless of what 'use video as timebase' is set to.
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Yeah.  That's what I was trying to say (that's why I compared it to the 
runtime disabling of AC-3 passthrough with timestretch and why I said, 
"[if] there's an AC-3 stream").  Guess I should have used that 
all-important word, "runtime," though.

Mike