Re: [Alsa-user] AC3 Pass through with NF4

[Clemens L. <cla...@fa...>]

Jason Martin wrote:
> I've been attempting to get AC3 passthrough over iec958 to work with my abit
> KN8 with NF4 chipset for some time now, and have had no success.
> 
> When using mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0.2 -ac hwac3 dvd:// there is nothing
> but silence. Regular stereo playback over iec958 works just fine.

Dont use "hw:0,2", use "spdif:0".  This should be the default for hwac3
playback, so it may be a good idea not to specify an ALSA device name.

Please try the latest mplayer version.


HTH
Clemens