Re: [Alsa-user] live 5.1 not ac3 sound on the digital output

[Sven J. <sve...@we...>]

Hello!

> HI! i have a problem getting audio on the digital output when the source
> isn't AC3.
>
> Some DVDs has AC3 sound, but others has LPCM...
>
> How can i output on the digital output both type of sounds, with mplayer?
>
> Does i need some asoundrc file? could you post some?

Maybe you set mplayer to AC3-passthrough permanently? I only enable AC3 when I 
want to watch a movie with AC3 sound by starting mplayer with

mplayer -ao hwac3

My default output driver is just alsa9