Steven Ellis wrote: > I have an Asus A8N-VM CSM motherboard with integrated SPDIF. The audio > is driven my an AD1986a chip which uses the snd-hda-intel alsa driver. > > I can get knoppmyth to output PCM stereo audio over the SPDIF cable, but > I can't get AC3 pass though to work. Hence playing DVDs just results in > Stereo audio. > > Has anyone got AC3 to work with this chipset. > > At the moment i'm using alsa-driver-1.0.11rc2 with a couple of patches > to fix the annoying buzz you get with a 2ch stereo signal. I don't know > the alsa code well enough to know if this has broken the digital support. > > I've also tried a couple of variants on a .asoundrc which haven't made a > difference. >
Well i've finally managed to get mplayer to provide AC3 pass through using the following options in the ~/.mplayer/config file. ao=alsa:device=digital ac=hwac3, Just need to see some fixes for the AD9186a chipset so that I don't need the hacks to disable analog surround support. Steve ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
