[mythtv-users] AC3 Passthrough issues

Brian Steele steele.brian at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 03:39:33 UTC 2006


On 3/12/06, Matt <skd5aner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Also... I have myth set to ALSA:digital and the mixer set to "digital"
> > and the drop down next to the set to PCM.
> >
> > I can still verify that analog shows get sent to the receiver as PCM.
> >
> > What now?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Matt
> >
>
> Well, I found out another thing...
>
> - The receiver was set to AFD (Auto Format Decode).  It was able to
> instantly identify the PCM stuff as two channel, but it never detects
> the AC3 passthrough as true AC3.  I had to manually set it to
> "surround" and then I got the channels.  HOWEVER, it still doesn't say
> that it's truly decoding an AC3 signal.
>
> I think this might be a bug in the format of the signal that myth is
> passing.  How can we troubleshoot this?
>
> Thanks!
> Matt



I've found that setting Myth to output to ALSA:spdif made it work on my
system.  Using other outputs caused trouble for me.

Brian
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