[xine-user] More AC3 / DTS pass through questions.

[Carl A. <car...@ov...>]

I must say, AC3 & DTS passthrough seem to be maddeningly difficult to 
make work. Why is "don't mollest the signal at all, pass it to my 
reciever" so difficult?  I built my mythbox last January, and I have 
still not gotten this problem solved.

Any help would be appreciated. I have an AMD 64, Gentoo, Kernel 2.6.11, 
ALSA 1.0.8, xine-ui 0.99.3, xine-lib 1.1.0, and an Audigy2 Platnium Pro 
(with the external breakout box).  The best I've been able to get for 
sound is what sounds like a rapidly cycling static buzz, or nothing at 
all.  Regular stereo sound works fine; I cam watch myth recordings and 
play all jukebox files. but DVDs? nothing useful.

What information would be needed to held diagnose this? I'm stumped. 
aplay works with "spdif" or "iec958" output destination, but xine does 
not, even with "Pass Through" as my speaker arrangement.

Help? Please.

    --- Carl