[mythtv-users] Not getting Dolby Prologic out of s/pdif
Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
gtgj at pacbell.net
Thu Mar 16 03:40:14 UTC 2006
>>>>> Kevin Kuphal writes:
k> Perhaps you can advise me here. I have ATSC HD recordings that if I
k> play them through mplayer with -ac hwac3, my receiver pops into Dolby
k> Digital mode (or whatever) and it works nice (2 ch, 5 ch, whatever), but
k> if I enable AC3 passthrough in Myth, I get no sound. I have no
k> .asoundrc file and it seems that ALSA works fine for mplayer with that
k> switch, what more does Myth need? My normal recordings go fine to my
k> receiver via ALSA:default or ALSA:spdif, whatever I have set in Myth.
I have the same problem reported here:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/187127#187127
If I remove the code described in the post, AC3 passthrough works fine
with "ALSA:default" as the output device. This is with onboard audio
on an nForce4 board, no .asoundrc, FC4.
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Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
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