[mythtv-users] OSX, Mac Mini & AC3 passthru

Jarle Thorsen jarlethorsen at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 11:44:19 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 12 August 2008 10:44:29 Stephen Hocking wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have this working? I have the Mac Mini (1.83GHz C2D, OSX
> 10.5.4) hooked up via optical cable to my home theatre receiver, and
> when I have the AC3 passthru box checked, any recordings with an AC3
> soundtrack exhibit the following symptoms - very fast playback of
> video, and audio that sounds like it's bubbling up from underwater,
> and is also sped up. Playing with the settings such as extra audio
> buffering will quite often result in lockups of MythTV, and other
> programs (once MythTV has exited not being able to access the SPDIF
> device (such as VLC). I'm at the point where I'm just about ready to
> submit a bug.

Is AC3 passthrough working for you in VLC?



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