Chris Bennett <ch...@bennettconstruction.biz> wrote: > I've just gotten a new setup with azalia > > Can I output ac3 with something like mplayer to spdif and then decode it > externally?
In principle, yes. In practice our mplayer port lacks a small patch to make this possible. > Or even better, decode it internally and output the channels? S/PDIF can only carry two PCM channels, so this is only possible for AC3 2.0 (stereo) or with downmixing to stereo. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
